Spatial prediction of soil properties in temperate mountain regions using support vector regression

Geoderma

Volumn 151, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 338-350

  Ballabio, Cristiano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Digital soil mapping; Model comparison; Mountain regions; Support vector regression

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX FUNCTIONS; DATA SETS; DIGITAL SOIL MAPPING; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; FEATURE SPACE; MODEL COMPARISON; MODEL COMPLEXITY; MOUNTAIN REGIONS; NON-LINEARITY; NON-PARAMETRIC MODEL; NONLINEAR APPROXIMATION; OVERFITTING; SOIL MAPPING; SOIL PROPERTY; SPATIAL PREDICTION; STUDY SITES; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSIONS;

EDUCATION; LANDFORMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS; VECTORS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGITAL MAPPING; MOUNTAIN REGION; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349286180     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.04.022     Document Type: Article

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