Bottom-up digital soil mapping. I. Soil layer classes

Geoderma

Volumn 163, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 38-44

  Odgers, Nathan P ^a,b   McBratney, Alex B ^a   Minasny, Budiman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up classification; Continuous soil layer classes; Digital soil mapping; Fuzzy classification; Soil classification

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CLASSIFICATION; CONTINUOUS SOIL LAYER CLASSES; DIGITAL SOIL MAPPING; FUZZY CLASSIFICATION; SOIL CLASSIFICATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; MAPPING; SOILS; SPECTROSCOPY;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ALGORITHM; BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIGITAL MAPPING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; INDEX METHOD; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; SOIL PROFILE;

AUSTRALIA; HUNTER VALLEY; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 79955953190     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.03.014     Document Type: Article

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