Using additional criteria for measuring the quality of predictions and their uncertainties in a digital soil mapping framework

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1032-1043

  Malone, Brendan P ^a   De Gruijter, Jaap J ^b   McBratney, Alex B ^a   Minasny, Budiman ^a   Brus, Dick J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY MEASURES; AUSTRALIA; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; MAP QUALITY; PREDICTION INTERVAL; PREDICTION UNCERTAINTY; QUALITY OF PREDICTIONS; RANDOM VALUES; ROOT MEAN SQUARED; SIMULATION ERROR; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL MAPPING; SOIL MAPS; SOIL PH; SOIL PROPERTY; SPATIAL AVERAGE; STUDY AREAS;

FORECASTING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SOILS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DECISION MAKING; DIGITAL MAPPING; ERROR ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PH; PREDICTION; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL QUALITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 83055171415     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2010.0280     Document Type: Article

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