Knowledge discovery from models of soil properties developed through data mining

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 191, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 431-446

  Bui, Elisabeth N ^a   Henderson, Brent L ^a   Viergever, Karin ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Australia; Ecoregionalization; Environmental thresholds; Knowledge discovery; Soil; Spatial modelling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

AUSTRALIA; ECOREGIONALIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL THRESHOLDS; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY; SPATIAL MODELLING;

SOIL MECHANICS;

ECOREGION; MODELING; SOIL PROPERTY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 30344465351     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.05.021     Document Type: Article

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