Estimating Water Retention with Pedotransfer Functions Using Multi-Objective Group Method of Data Handling and ANNs

Pedosphere

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 107-114

  Bayat, H ^a   Neyshabouri, M R ^b   Mohammadi, K ^c   Nariman Zadeh, N ^d  

^a BU ALI SINA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^c TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUILAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aggregate size distribution; Fractal parameters; Particle size distribution

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE SIZE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL WATER; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 78650660442     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(10)60085-9     Document Type: Article

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