Estimating water content at field capacity and permanent wilting point using non-parametric K-NN algorithm

International Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 166-168

  Keshavarzi, Ali ^a   Sarmadian, Fereydoon ^a   Zolfaghari, Ali Asghar ^a   Pezeshki, Paria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Field capacity; K NN algorithm; Pedotransfer functions; Permanent wilting point

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861852075     PISSN: 18164897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/ijar.2012.166.168     Document Type: Article

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