Delineation of management zones using soil properties and a multivariate geostatistical approach

Italian Journal of Agronomy

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 323-332

  Buttafuoco, Gabriele ^a   Castrignanò, Annamaria ^b   Colecchia, Antonio Salvatore ^c   Ricca, Nicola ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Factor kriging; Management zones; Multivariate geostatistics; Precision agriculture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CLAY; CROP YIELD; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL VARIATION; VARIOGRAM; WHEAT;

ITALY;

TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM;

EID: 84857252262     PISSN: 11254718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/ija.2010.323     Document Type: Article

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