Uncertainty in the spatial prediction of soil texture. Comparison of regression tree and Random Forest models

Geoderma

Volumn 170, Issue , 2012, Pages 70-79

  Ließ, Mareike ^a   Glaser, Bruno ^b   Huwe, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

GIS; Random Forest; Regression tree; Soil texture; Tropical soils

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL NETWORK; CLAY CONTENT; CLAY PARTICLES; DATA SETS; DOWNSLOPE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT; LASER METHOD; LINEAR REGRESSION EQUATION; MODEL CONSTRUCTION; MODEL PERFORMANCE; OVERLAND FLOW; PARENT MATERIALS; PREDICTION UNCERTAINTY; RANDOM FORESTS; REGRESSION TREES; RISK ESTIMATION; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; SOIL DATA; SOIL LAYER; SOIL MAPS; SOIL PROFILES; SOIL TEXTURE; SOIL TEXTURES; SPATIAL PREDICTION; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL MODELS; STEEP SLOPE; SURFACE HORIZONS; TERRAIN FACTORS; TEXTURE PROPERTIES; TROPICAL SOILS;

DECISION TREES; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LANDSLIDES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK PERCEPTION; SILT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEXTURES;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ALTITUDE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DIGITAL MAPPING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSLIDE; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SILTY CLAY; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL TEXTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRAIN; TROPICAL SOIL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY; GIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SILT; SOIL; TEXTURE;

ECUADOR;

EID: 84155191188     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.10.010     Document Type: Article

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