Digital soil-class mapping from proximal and remotely sensed data at the field level

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 841-853

  Triantafilis, John ^a   Kerridge, Belinda ^a   Buchanan, Sam M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCILLARY DATA; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COST PROHIBITIVE; DATA SETS; DIGITAL NUMBERS; FARM-SCALE; FIELD LEVEL; FUZZINESS PERFORMANCE INDICES; FUZZY K-MEANS; HIGH-DENSITY; IRRIGATED FIELDS; OPTIMAL SELECTION; ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; SOIL DATA; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL PROPERTY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AGRONOMY; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; GYPSUM; MANAGEMENT; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; REMOTE SENSING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOILS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 68149120334     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2008.0112     Document Type: Article

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