Empirical estimates of uncertainty for mapping continuous depth functions of soil attributes

Geoderma

Volumn 160, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 614-626

  Malone, B P ^a   McBratney, A B ^a   Minasny, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Digital soil mapping; Fuzzy k means with extragrades; Model uncertainty; Soil depth functions

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; AVAILABLE WATER CAPACITIES; COVARIATES; DATA SETS; EMPIRICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; EMPIRICAL ESTIMATE; EMPIRICAL METHOD; FEATURE SPACE; FUZZY K-MEANS; LATERAL DISTRIBUTIONS; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL OUTPUTS; MODEL UNCERTAINTY; PREDICTION ERRORS; PREDICTION INTERVAL; PREDICTION UNCERTAINTY; SINGLE POINT; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL DEPTH FUNCTIONS; SOIL MAPPING; UNDERLYING DISTRIBUTION; UNKNOWN VALUES;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ERRORS; FORECASTING; MAPPING; ORGANIC CARBON; SOILS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

AVAILABLE WATER CAPACITY; DATA SET; DIGITAL MAPPING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL DEPTH; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

AUSTRALIA; EDGEROI; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 78650744694     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2010.11.013     Document Type: Article

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