Modeling spatio-temporal crop allocation patterns by a stochastic decision tree method, considering agronomic driving factors

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 103, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 647-655

  Sorel, Luc ^a,b   Viaud, Valérie ^a,b   Durand, Patrick ^a,b   Walter, Christian ^a,b  

^a UMR SAS   (France)

^b AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

Author keywords

Crop rotation; Decision tree; Land cover change modeling; Stochastic modeling; Transition probability matrices

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGRONOMY; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP ROTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LAND COVER; MARKOV CHAIN; MODEL TEST; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; WATERLOGGING;

FRANCE;

EID: 77957770747     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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