Estimation of surface shear strength in Zagros region of Iran - A comparison of artificial neural networks and multiple-linear regression models

Geoderma

Volumn 153, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 29-36

  Khalilmoghadam, B ^a   Afyuni, M ^a   Abbaspour, K C ^b   Jalalian, A ^a   Dehghani, A A ^c   Schulin, R ^d  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c GORGAN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Iran)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Soil erodibility; Surface shear strength

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ESTIMATION MODELS; FEED-FORWARD; FEED-FORWARD NETWORK; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; NEURAL NETWORK MODEL; NEURAL NETWORKS STRUCTURE; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; NORMALIZED MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PARTICLES SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SENSITIVE VARIABLES; SOIL ERODIBILITY; SOIL EROSION; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL SHEAR STRENGTH; SURFACE SHEAR; SURFACE SHEAR STRENGTH; SURFACE SOIL;

BACKPROPAGATION; EROSION; ESTIMATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; ORGANIC CARBON; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOILS; VEGETATION;

SHEAR STRENGTH;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CALCIUM CARBONATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; NDVI; PARTICLE SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SHEAR STRENGTH; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SLOPE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL EROSION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; ZAGROS;

EID: 70349247702     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.07.008     Document Type: Article

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