Use of the nonparametric nearest neighbor approach to estimate soil hydraulic properties

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 327-336

  Nemes, Attila ^a,b   Rawls, Walter J ^b   Pachepsky, Yakov A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c Environmental Microbiology and Food Safety Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

HIERARCHICAL SETS; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR (K-NN) ALGORITHMS; NONPARAMETRIC LAZY LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SOIL HYDRAULICS;

SOIL MECHANICS;

HYDRAULICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; SOIL MECHANICS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY;

EID: 33645058876     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2005.0128     Document Type: Article

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