Knowledge discovery from soil maps using inductive learning

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 771-795

  Qi, Feng ^a   Zhu, A Xing ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GIS; MAPPING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SOIL; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 0242485179     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658810310001596049     Document Type: Article

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