An artificial neural network model for simulating pesticide concentrations in soil

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1285-1294

  Yang, C C ^a,b   Prasher, S O ^a,b   Sreekanth, S ^b   Patni, N K ^a,c   Masse, L ^c  

^a ASAE ^*  (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Pesticide concentration modeling

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE CONCENTRATION MODELING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SOILS;

PESTICIDES;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; MODELLING; PESTICIDE CONCENTRATION; SOIL;

CANADA, ONTARIO, OTTAWA;

EID: 0031239608     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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