摘要：This article presents an overview of land evaluation and land use planning approaches used by FAO and the contributing role used by GIS. The total extension of the study area is 3397 sq.kms. The topo-sheets of 14 have used for the corresponding to the study area which are 58N/1, N/2, N/3, N/4, N/5, N/6, N/7, N/8, N/9, N/11, 58J/13, J /14, and 58M/8, M/12 with 1:50,000 scale. The District has total population of 2,402,781 persons according to 2011 census. Finally, this study find out the land capability, soil erosion, crops grown, land use planning, water holding capacity, river basin watershed, non agricultural land use category of the wildlife conservations and tourism related evaluation categories are identified for Thanjavur district using Geographic Information System
关键词：Land evaluation; Land capability; Soil erosion and Geographical Information System(GIS).
