Agricultural Soil Map of Austria - Water Permeability

Water permeability refers to the average vertical drainage velocity of water in soil. Its primarily depends on soil structure and texture, followed by humus content coarse fraction, soil depth, and depth of the groundwater table. The soil map distinguishes ten categories: the five primary categories of "very low", "low", "moderate", "high", and "very high", and five additional categories of "very low to low", "low to moderate", "moderate to high", "high to very high", and "not described".