Pedotransfer functions: State of the art, problems, and outlooks

Eurasian Soil Science

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1089-1099

  Shein, E V ^a   Arkhangel'skaya, T A ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL SCIENCES; SOILS; STATISTICAL TESTS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

MODELING; PEDOLOGY; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 33750997880     PISSN: 10642293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1064229306100073     Document Type: Article

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