Mapping efficiency and information content

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 127-138

  Hengl, T ^a   MacMillan, R A ^a   Nikolic M ^b  

^a ISRIC WORLD SOIL INFORMATION   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Complexity; Compression; Effective information content; Regression kriging; Scale; Soil mapping

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; MAPPING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

EID: 84883054839     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.02.005     Document Type: Article

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