Quantifying engineering parameters of expansive soils from their reflectance spectra

Engineering Geology

Volumn 105, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 151-160

  Yitagesu, Fekerte Arega ^a   van der Meer, Freek ^a   van der Werff, Harald ^a   Zigterman, Wolter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Engineering parameters; Expansive soils; PLSR; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ATTERBERG LIMITS; CATION EXCHANGE CAPACITIES; CLIMATIC VARIATIONS; CONSTRUCTION SITES; CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; EMPIRICAL PREDICTION MODELS; ENGINEERING PARAMETERS; EXPANSIVE SOILS; FREE SWELLS; GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATIONS; LIGHT-WEIGHT ENGINEERINGS; MECHANICS LABORATORIES; MOISTURE CONTENTS; MULTIVARIATE CALIBRATION METHODS; PARTIAL LEAST-SQUARES REGRESSIONS; PLSR; REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SOIL SAMPLES; SPECTRAL PARAMETERS; STANDARD ERROR OF CALIBRATIONS; VOLUME CHANGES;

CALIBRATION; CURVE FITTING; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

DEFORMATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPANSIVE SOIL; ION EXCHANGE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MOISTURE CONTENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL MECHANICS; SPECTROSCOPY; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 64249158276     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2009.01.004     Document Type: Article

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