Modeling of soil cation exchange capacity based on fuzzy table look-up scheme and artificial neural network approach

Modern Applied Science

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 153-164

  Keshavarzi, Ali ^a   Sarmadian, Fereydoon ^a   Labbafi, Reza ^a   Vandechali, Majid Rajabi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Cation exchange capacity; Fuzzy table look up scheme; Pedotransfer function; Ziaran

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956321456     PISSN: 19131844     EISSN: 19131852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5539/mas.v5n1p153     Document Type: Article

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