Sampling challenges posed by continental-scale soil landscape modeling

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 372, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 645-656

  Scull, P ^a   Okin, G S ^b  

^a Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental scale research; Randomization; Sampling methods; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

SAMPLING; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONTINENTAL-SCALE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

FIELD SURVEY; LANDSCAPE; MODELING; POLYGON; SAMPLING; SAMPLING BIAS; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SOIL PROPERTY; SPATIAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DENSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYPOTHESIS; LANDSCAPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SIMULATION; SOIL PROPERTY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE SOIL; UNITED STATES;

ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SELECTION BIAS; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845932612     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.10.013     Document Type: Article

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