Mapping soil organic matter in small low-relief catchments using fuzzy slope position information

Geoderma

Volumn 171-172, Issue , 2012, Pages 64-74

  Qin, Cheng Zhi ^a   Zhu, A Xing ^a,b   Qiu, Wei Li ^c   Lu, Yan Jun ^a,c   Li, Bao Lin ^a   Pei, Tao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

DEM; Digital soil mapping; Directed sampling; Fuzzy slope position; Soil organic matter

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEM; DIGITAL SOIL MAPPING; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; EVALUATION RESULTS; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MODEL EXTRAPOLATION; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; SAMPLE POINT; SET OF RULES; SLOPE POSITIONS; SOIL LAYER; SOIL MAPPING; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER CONTENTS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STUDY AREAS; TERRAIN ATTRIBUTES; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CATCHMENTS; EXTRAPOLATION; INFORMATION USE; LINEAR REGRESSION; MAPPING; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOILS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CATCHMENT; CORRELATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIGITAL MAPPING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RELIEF; SAMPLING; SLOPE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRAIN;

EID: 84857071451     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.06.006     Document Type: Article

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