Transformation of categorical field soil morphological properties into numerical properties for the study of chronosequences

Geoderma

Volumn 145, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 278-287

  Calero, Julio ^a   Delgado, Rafael ^b   Delgado, Gabriel ^b   Martín García, Juan Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Categorical principal component analysis (CATPCA); Guadalquivir River; Morphological field soil properties; Non linear principal component analysis; Optimal scaling; Quaternary soil chronosequence; Soil chronofunctions; Soil cluster analysis

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; CLAY MINERALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONSERVATION; CURING; DATA REDUCTION; DRYING; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MICROFLUIDICS; NEODYMIUM; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; NUMBER THEORY; NUMERICAL METHODS; RANDOM VARIABLES; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXTURES; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

(111) TEXTURE; CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CHRONOSEQUENCES; ELSEVIER (CO); FIELD SOILS; FLOOD PLAINS; FLUVIAL TERRACES; LOGARITHMIC MODELS; MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; NOMINAL VARIABLES; NON-LINEAR; NUMERICAL PROPERTIES; ORDINAL VARIABLES; PARENT MATERIALS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS (PCA); PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; PROPERTY (S); SCALING TRANSFORMATIONS; SCALINGS; SOIL CHRONOSEQUENCE; SOIL PROCESSING; SOIL PROPERTIES; SOUTHERN SPAIN; STRUCTURE SIZES; STRUCTURE TYPE; SYSTEMATIC (CO);

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CHRONOSEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DOLOMITE; MORPHOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; PARENT MATERIAL; PEDON; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUATERNARY; SIZE STRUCTURE; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL SURVEY; SOIL TEXTURE;

ANDALUCIA; ANDUJAR; EURASIA; EUROPE; GUADALQUIVIR RIVER; JAEN [ANDALUCIA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; VILLANUEVA DE LA REINA;

EID: 45449103630     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2008.03.022     Document Type: Article

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