Characterising flow patterns in soils by feature extraction and multiple consensus clustering

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages 44-52

  Bogner, Christina ^a   Trancón y Widemann, Baltasar ^a,b   Lange, Holger ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dye patterns; Dye tracer study; Feature extraction; Multiple consensus clustering; Vadose zone hydrology

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DORMANCY; DYE; FLOW PATTERN; GROUNDWATER; SOIL TYPE; SURFACE WATER; VADOSE ZONE;

EID: 84876353180     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2013.03.001     Document Type: Article

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