Regional mapping of soil parent material by machine learning based on point data

Geomorphology

Volumn 133, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 90-99

  Lacoste, Marine ^a   Lemercier, Blandine ^a,b   Walter, Christian ^a,b  

^a UMR SAS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Boosted classification tree; Digital soil mapping; Pedogenesis factor; Regional scale; Soil parent material

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SURVEY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; MAPPING METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARENT MATERIAL; PEDOGENESIS; PROVENANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BRETAGNE; FRANCE;

EID: 79960950057     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.06.026     Document Type: Article

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