Modeling water infiltration rate under conventional tillage systems on a clay soil using artificial neural networks

Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3869-3879

  Al Janobi, Abdulrahman A ^a   Aboukarima, Abdulwahed M ^b   Ahmed, Khaled A ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Department of Natural and Applied Science   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Infiltration rate; Kostiakov equation; Tillage process

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650282266     PISSN: 19918178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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