Prediction of soil organic carbon across different land-use patterns: A neural network approach

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1580-1589

  Somaratne, S ^a   Seneviratne, G ^b   Coomaraswamy, U ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA   (Sri Lanka)

^b INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON (SOC);

SOILS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; LAND USE; MODELING; ORGANIC CARBON; PREDICTION; SOIL CARBON;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA; WORLD;

EID: 24644506091     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2003.0293     Document Type: Article

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