An expert system for soil taxonomy

Soil Science

Volumn 163, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 748-758

  Galbraith, John M ^a,c   Bryant, Ray B ^a   Ahrens, Robert J ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b USDA NRCS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Clustering; Computers; Expert Systems; Fuzzy logic; Numerical taxonomy; Object oriented; Soil taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EXPERT SYSTEM; SOIL; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0031664247     PISSN: 0038075X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00010694-199809000-00008     Document Type: Article

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