Inverse meta-modelling to estimate soil available water capacity at high spatial resolution across a farm

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 421-438

  Florin, M J ^a,b   McBratney, A B ^a   Whelan, B M ^a   Minasny, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crop growth simulation modelling; Inverse modelling; Meta modelling; Precision agriculture; Soil available water capacity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DATA SET; GROWTH MODELING; INVERSE ANALYSIS; META-ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79955876569     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-010-9184-3     Document Type: Article

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