Mapping soil organic matter using the topographic wetness index: A comparative study based on different flow-direction algorithms and kriging methods

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 610-619

  Pei, Tao ^a,b   Qin, Cheng Zhi ^a   Zhu, A Xing ^a,c   Yang, Lin ^a   Luo, Ming ^a   Li, Baolin ^a   Zhou, Chenghu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b East China Normal University   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Auto correlation; Collocated cokriging; Cross correlation; Digital soil mapping; Multiple flow direction (MFD); Single flow direction (SFD); Terrain variable

Indexed keywords

CO-KRIGING; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DOWNSLOPE; DRAINAGE CONDITION; GRID CELLS; KRIGING METHODS; KRIGING WITH EXTERNAL DRIFTS; LOCAL MEAN; LOCAL SCALE; NUMERICAL INSTABILITY; ORDINARY KRIGING; PREDICTIVE MAPPING; PREDICTIVE METHODS; SECONDARY VARIABLES; SIMPLE KRIGING; SOIL MAPPING; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; TERRAIN ATTRIBUTES; TOPOGRAPHIC WETNESS INDEX; WATER ACCUMULATION;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CORRELATION METHODS; FORESTRY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; LANDFORMS; MAPPING; NUMERICAL METHODS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ROTATING MACHINERY; SHOCK ABSORBERS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOIL MOISTURE; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

RETAINING WALLS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIGITAL MAPPING; DRAINAGE NETWORK; KRIGING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TERRAIN;

CHINA;

EID: 75349085051     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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