Methods to interpolate soil categorical variables from profile observations: Lessons from Iran

Geoderma

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 417-427

  Hengl, Tomislav ^a   Toomanian, Norair ^b   Reuter, Hannes I ^a   Malakouti, Mohammad J ^c  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c Soil and Water Research Institute Iran   (Iran)

Author keywords

Categorical variables; Fuzzy means; MODIS; Multinominal logistic regression; Regression kriging; Terrain parameters

Indexed keywords

CATEGORICAL VARIABLES; FUZZY MEANS; MODIS; MULTINOMINAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION; REGRESSION KRIGING; TERRAIN PARAMETERS;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SOILS;

FUZZY MATHEMATICS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MODIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL TEXTURE; TERRAIN;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 34447527460     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2007.04.022     Document Type: Article

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