Digital soil pattern recognition in the lower Namoi valley using numerical clustering of gamma-ray spectrometry data

Geoderma

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 407-421

  Triantafilis, John ^a   Gibbs, Issac ^b   Earl, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Digital soil classification; Fuzzy k means (FKM) classification; Gamma spectrometry; Geomorphology; Remote sensing; Soil management classes

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; CATCHMENTS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DUST; FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SYSTEMS; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; GEOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MAPPING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; SURVEYING;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL DATA; DIGITAL SOIL MAPPINGS; FUZZY K-MEANS; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL UNITS; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; SOIL MANAGEMENT;

GAMMA RAYS;

ALGORITHM; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; ENTROPY; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSCAPE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; REGOLITH; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL TYPE; SUBSOIL;

AUSTRALIA; NAMOI VALLEY; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84869118398     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.08.021     Document Type: Article

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