Pedotransfer functions estimating soil hydraulic properties using different soil parameters

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1630-1639

  Børgesen, Christen D ^a   Iversen, Bo V ^a   Jacobsen, Ole H ^a   Schaap, Marcel G ^b  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b U S SALINITY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydraulic properties; Neural network; Pedotransfer functions

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NEURAL NETWORKS; SOIL MOISTURE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

BOOTSTRAP METHOD; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

SOIL TESTING;

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NEURAL NETWORKS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TESTING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BOOTSTRAPPING; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; LOAMY SAND; PARAMETERIZATION; SANDY SOIL; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TEXTURE; SOIL WATER;

EID: 44449113222     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6731     Document Type: Article

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