Including topography and vegetation attributes for developing pedotransfer functions

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1430-1440

  Sharma, Sanjay K ^a   Mohanty, Binayak P ^b   Zhu, Jianting ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Texas A and M University   (United States)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; REMOTE SENSING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VEGETATION;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS (DEM); NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTIONS (PTF); SOIL WATER CONTENTS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL SURVEYS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VEGETATION;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BOOTSTRAPPING; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GIS; NDVI; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; REMOTE SENSING; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33748576907     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2005.0087     Document Type: Article

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