Spatial distribution and content of soil organic matter in an agricultural field in Eastern Canada, as estimated from geostatistical tools

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 278-283

  Mabit, Lionel ^a   Bernard, Claude ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^b Gouvernement du Quebec   (Canada)

Author keywords

137Cs; Cross validation; Geostatistics; Inverse distance weighting power two; Ordinary Kriging; Soil erosion; Soil organic matter; Soil quality

Indexed keywords

CROSS VALIDATION; GEO-STATISTICS; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTING; ORDINARY KRIGING; SOIL EROSION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CESIUM; INTERPOLATION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CESIUM ISOTOPE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOSTATISTICS; GIS; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; SOIL EROSION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL QUALITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

CANADA;

EID: 77949594956     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1907     Document Type: Article

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