Assessing the spatial uncertainty in soil nitrogen mapping through stochastic simulations with categorical land use information

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 16, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-9

  Qu, Mingkai ^a,b   Li, Weidong ^c   Zhang, Chuanrong ^c  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Land use type; Predictive mapping; Sequential Gaussian simulation; Soil nitrogen; Uncertainty assessment

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ALGORITHM; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; LAND USE; LAND USE CHANGE; MAPPING; SOIL NITROGEN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84877814909     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2013.04.001     Document Type: Article

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