Ensemble approach to provide uncertainty estimates of soil bulk density

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1938-1945

  Nemes, A ^a,b   Quebedeaux, B ^a   Timlin, D J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; C CONTENTS; DATA SUBSETS; DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STUDY; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; LIMITING FACTORS; MEAN ERRORS; MEASURED DATA; PATTERN RECOGNITION ALGORITHMS; POINT MEASUREMENT; RANDOM RESAMPLING; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARED; SIMULATION MODEL; SIMULATION STUDIES; SIMULATION-BASED; SOIL AERATION; SOIL BULK DENSITY; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL PARTICLES; SOIL TAXONOMY; TIME STEP; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AERATION; ALGORITHM; BULK DENSITY; DATABASE; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL CARBON; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 78249275577     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2009.0370     Document Type: Article

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