Comparing and evaluating digital soil mapping methods in a Hungarian forest reserve

Canadian Journal of Soil Science

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 615-626

  Illés, Gábor ^a   Kovács, Gábor ^b   Heil, Bálint ^b  

^a Department of Ecology and Silviculture   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST HUNGARY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Digital soil maps; Forest reserves; Terrain soil relation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIGITAL MAPPING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST SOIL; MAPPING METHOD; NATURE RESERVE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; TERRAIN;

HUNGARY;

EID: 79960791375     PISSN: 00084271     EISSN: 19181841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/cjss2010-007     Document Type: Article

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