Assessing the spatial extent of dryland salinity through fuzzy modeling

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 193, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 387-411

  Malins, David ^a   Metternicht, Graciela ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy sets; GIS; Landscape analysis; Salinity; Spatial modelling

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL MODELING;

FUZZY SETS;

FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GIS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MODELING; SALINITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 32644487594     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.08.044     Document Type: Article

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