A land evaluation decision support system (MicroLEIS DSS) for agricultural soil protection: With special reference to the Mediterranean region

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 929-942

  De La Rosa, D ^a   Mayol, F ^a   Diaz Pereira, E ^a   Fernandez, M ^a   De La Rosa Jr , D ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Expert system; GIS based spatialization; Land attribute database; Land suitability; Land vulnerability; Neural network; Optimization tool

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LAND USE; PLANNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROTECTION; SOILS;

LAND EVALUATION METHODS; LAND RESOURCES;

AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; GIS; LAND EVALUATION; SOIL CONSERVATION;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 3342907993     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2003.10.006     Document Type: Article

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