Determining nugget:sill ratios of standardized variograms from aerial photographs to krige sparse soil data

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 33-56

  Kerry, Ruth ^a   Oliver, Margaret A ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aerial photographs; Kriging; Nugget:sill ratio; Soil; Variogram

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; ESTIMATION METHOD; KRIGING; MAPPING METHOD; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SILL; SOIL PROPERTY; STANDARDIZATION; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 41549099517     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-008-9058-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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