Estimating within-field variation using a nonparametric density algorithm

Environmetrics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 465-481

  Castrignano A ^a   Buttafuoco, G ^b   Pisante, M ^c   Lopez, N ^a  

^a Agronomic Research Institute   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D visualisation; Clustering; Density function; Geostatistics; Precision farming

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FARMING SYSTEM; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FOGGIA; ITALY; PUGLIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33746000494     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.784     Document Type: Article

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