Transiograms for characterizing spatial variability of soil classes

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 881-893

  Li, Weidong ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

REAL-DATA TRANSIOGRAMS; SOIL VARIABLES;

SOIL SURVEYS;

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SOIL SURVEYS;

AUTOCORRELATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 34249072264     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2005.0132     Document Type: Article

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