Multi-scale European Soil Information System (MEUSIS): A multi-scale method to derive soil indicators

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 463-475

  Panagos, Panos ^a   van Liedekerke, Marc ^a   Montanarella, Luca ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Descriptive statistics; INSPIRE; MEUSIS; Multi scale soil information system; Soil data; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; SOIL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UPSCALING;

EID: 79957805390     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-010-9216-0     Document Type: Article

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