Application of a Digital Soil Mapping Method in Producing Soil Orders on Mountain Areas of Hong Kong Based on Legacy Soil Data

Pedosphere

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 339-350

  Sun, Xiao Lin ^a,b   Zhao, Yu Guo ^b   Zhang, Gan Lin ^b   Wu, Sheng Chun ^a,b   Man, Yu Bon ^a   Wong, Ming Hung ^a,b  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Decision tree analysis; Linear discriminant analysis; Soil covariate selection

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; DECISION ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; LINEARITY; MAPPING METHOD; MOUNTAIN REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL TYPE; SURVEY; TERRAIN; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 79955394892     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(11)60134-3     Document Type: Article

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