Apparent soil electrical conductivity: Applications for designing and evaluating field-scale experiments

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 46, Issue 1-3 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 181-202

  Johnson, C K ^a,c   Eskridge, K M ^a   Corwin, D L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b U S SALINITY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c USDA ARS GEBJ Salinity Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural systems; Classified management maps; Geographic information systems; Soil electrical conductivity; Statistical analyses

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ERROR CORRECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXPERIMENTAL ERRORS; FIELD-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; MEAN-SQUARE (MS) ERRORS; RESPONSE-SURAFCE MODEL;

SOILS;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GIS; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 13844320985     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2004.12.001     Document Type: Article

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