Assessment and visualization of spatial interpolation of soil pH values in farmland

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 565-585

  Wu, Yi Hwa ^a   Hung, Ming Chih ^a   Patton, Jamie ^a  

^a NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic information system; Inverse distance weighted; Kriging; Spatial interpolation; Spline; Visualization

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CROPPING PRACTICE; GIS; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; PH; PROFITABILITY; SOIL; VISUALIZATION;

MISSOURI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84886722539     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-013-9316-7     Document Type: Article

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