Spatial variability of soil properties and its application in predicting surface map of hydraulic parameters in an agricultural farm

Current Science

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 937-945

  Santra, Priyabrata ^a   Chopra, U K ^a   Chakraborty, Debashis ^a  

^a INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Basic soil properties; Ordinary kriging; Pedotransfer functions; Semivariogram

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549101939     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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