Digital soil mapping at pilot sites in the northwest coast of Egypt: A multinomial logistic regression approach

Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Science

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-40

  Abdel Kader, Fawzy Hassan ^a  

^a ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Digital soil mapping; Multiple logistic regressions; Northwest coast Egypt; Spectral and terrain parameters

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LANDFORMS; PHOTOMAPPING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CONVENTIONAL METHODS; DIGITAL SOIL MAPPINGS; ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPERS; MULTINOMIAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION; MULTIPLE LOGISTIC REGRESSION; NORTHWEST COAST EGYPT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; TERRAIN PARAMETERS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COASTAL ZONE; DIGITAL MAP; DIGITAL MAPPING; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TERRAIN;

EGYPT;

EID: 80052263328     PISSN: 11109823     EISSN: 20902476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrs.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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