Predicting soil bulk density for incomplete databases

Geoderma

Volumn 213, Issue , 2014, Pages 64-73

  Sequeira, Cleiton H ^a,b   Wills, Skye A ^b   Seybold, Cathy A ^b   West, Larry T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b USDA NRCS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulk density; Pedon description; Pedotranfer functions; Random forest

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; DATABASE CONFIGURATION; DESCRIPTION INFORMATION; PEDON DESCRIPTION; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTIONS; RANDOM FORESTS; SOIL MOISTURE AVAILABILITY; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON;

DECISION TREES; FORECASTING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOIL TESTING; SOILS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

BULK DENSITY; CROP YIELD; DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE; ORGANIC CARBON; PEDON; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL SURVEY;

EID: 84883321086     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.07.013     Document Type: Article

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