Equal-area spline functions applied to a legacy soil database to create weighted-means maps of soil organic carbon at a continental scale

Geoderma

Volumn 189-190, Issue , 2012, Pages 153-163

  Odgers, Nathan P ^a,c   Libohova, Zamir ^b   Thompson, James A ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA NRCS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Equal area splines; GlobalSoilMap; Legacy soil data; STATSGO2; Weighted means

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SCALE; GLOBALSOILMAP; LAND SURFACE; SOIL COMPONENTS; SOIL DATA; SOIL DATABASE; SOIL MAPS; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL PROPERTY; SPLINE FUNCTIONS; STATSGO2; WEIGHTED MEAN;

INTERPOLATION; METADATA;

SOILS;

DATABASE; DIGITAL MAP; METADATA; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC SOIL; RASTER; SOIL CARBON;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864410833     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.05.026     Document Type: Article

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