Drought forecasting using new machine learning methods

Journal of Water and Land Development

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3-12

  Belayneh, Anteneh ^a   Adamowski, Jan ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

agriculture; artificial neural networks; drought forecast; SPI; support vector regression; wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889675754     PISSN: 14297426     EISSN: 20834535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/jwld-2013     Document Type: Article

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