Soil characterization using textural features extracted from GPR data

ASAE Annual International Meeting 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 2121-2134

  Odhiambo, Lameck O ^a   Freeland, Robert S ^a   Yoder, Ronald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Characterization; Ground penetrating radar; Neural network; Soils; Textural features

Indexed keywords

GPR DATA; SOIL CATEGORIES; TEXTURAL FEATURES; VISUAL INTERPRETATION;

CHARACTERIZATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENTROPY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

SOIL MECHANICS;

EID: 30044444595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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