Semi-automated disaggregation of conventional soil maps using knowledge driven data mining and classification trees

Geoderma

Volumn 213, Issue , 2014, Pages 385-399

  Nauman, Travis W ^a   Thompson, James A ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification trees; Polygon disaggregation; Soil landscape models; Spatial disaggregation; Uncertainty; Variable importance

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION TREES; DISAGGREGATION; SOIL-LANDSCAPE MODELS; SPATIAL DISAGGREGATION; UNCERTAINTY; VARIABLE IMPORTANCES;

FORECASTING; SOIL SURVEYS;

SOILS;

DATA MINING; DATABASE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; PIXEL; RASTER; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; SOIL SURVEY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

POCAHONTAS COUNTY [WEST VIRGINIA]; UNITED STATES; WEST VIRGINIA;

EID: 84884365905     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.024     Document Type: Article

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