Automated soil resources mapping based on decision tree and Bayesian predictive modeling

Journal of Zhejiang University: Science

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 782-795

  Zhou, Bin ^a   Zhang, Xin Gang ^a   Wang, Ren Chao ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bayesian predictive modeling; Decision tree; Knowledge based classification; Rule extracting; Soil mapping

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAPPING; SOIL SURVEYS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BAYESIAN PREDICTIVE MODELING; DECISION TREE; KNOWLEDGE BASES; RULE EXTRACTING; SOIL RESOURCES MAPPING; SOIL TYPE CLASSIFICATION;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EVALUATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SOIL;

EID: 4544375490     PISSN: 10093095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1631/jzus.2004.0782     Document Type: Article

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