Soil differentiation using fingerprint Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, chemometrics and genetic algorithm-based feature selection

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2888-2896

  Elliott, Geoffrey N ^a   Worgan, Hilary ^b   Broadhurst, David ^c   Draper, John ^b   Scullion, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DFA; FT IR; Genetic algorithm; PCA; Reclamation; Spectra

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CHEMOMETRICS; MULTIVARIATE DATA SETS; OPENCAST MINING; SOIL CHARACTERISTICS;

SOIL MECHANICS;

ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON; DIFFERENTIATION; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; LAND RECLAMATION; PEPTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547731355     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.05.032     Document Type: Article

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