Estimating soil organic carbon from soil reflectance: A review

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 82-99

  Ladoni, Moslem ^a   Bahrami, Hosein Ali ^a   Alavipanah, Sayed Kazem ^b   Norouzi, Ali Akbar ^c  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c Soil and Water Institute   (Iran)

Author keywords

'Soil line'; Geostatistics; Principal component analysis; Remote sensing; Soil organic carbon mapping; Soil reflectance

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; GEOSTATISTICS; MAPPING METHOD; ORGANIC CARBON; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REFLECTANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

EID: 73949099378     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-009-9123-3     Document Type: Review

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