Fuzzy cognitive map based approach for predicting yield in cotton crop production as a basis for decision support system in precision agriculture application

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3643-3657

  Papageorgiou, E I ^a   Markinos, A T ^b   Gemtos, T A ^b  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LAMIA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cotton; Decision making; Fuzzy cognitive maps; Fuzzy sets; Knowledge representation; Modeling; Yield

Indexed keywords

CAUSE-EFFECT; COGNITIVE MAPS; COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE; COMPLEX PROCESSES; COMPLEX PROCESSING; COTTON (GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM L.); COTTON PRODUCTION; COTTON YIELD; CROP MANAGEMENTS; CROP PRODUCTION; DATA SETS; FUZZY COGNITIVE MAP; FUZZY COGNITIVE MAPS; HUMAN REASONING; MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MODELING; ORGANIC MATTER; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; SOFTCOMPUTING TECHNIQUES; SOIL PROPERTY; YIELD; YIELD PREDICTION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CROPS; CULTIVATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FORECASTING; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; IMAGE MATCHING; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PH EFFECTS; SODIUM; SOFT COMPUTING;

COTTON;

EID: 79954611831     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2011.01.036     Document Type: Article

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