Sensitivity of memberships to attribute variation around selected centroids and intergrades in the continuous Australian Great Soil Groups classification system

Geoderma

Volumn 77, Issue 2-4, 1997, Pages 155-168

  Mazaheri, S A ^a   McBratney, A B ^a   Koppi, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attribute; Centroid; Continuous (fuzzy) classification; Exemplar representation; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SET; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; SOIL PROPERTIES; THEORY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0030617025     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7061(97)00020-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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