Spatially-based model of land suitability analysis using block kriging

Australian Journal of Crop Science

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1533-1541

  Keshavarzi, Ali ^a   Sarmadian, Fereydoon ^a   Ahmadi, Abbas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Characteristic matrix; Land suitability index; Membership functions; Spatial interpolation

Indexed keywords

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84857758435     PISSN: 18352693     EISSN: 18352707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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