Spatial Assessment of Soil Organic Carbon Density Through Random Forests Based Imputation

Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 577-587

  Sreenivas, K ^a   Sujatha, G ^a   Sudhir, K ^c   Kiran, D Vamsi ^b   Fyzee, M A ^a   Ravisankar, T ^a   Dadhwal, V K ^a  

^a National Remote Sensing Centre   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Random forests; SOC density; Soil carbon; Spatial imputation

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA MINING; DATA SET; MAPPING METHOD; NDVI; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANDHRA PRADESH; INDIA; KARNATAKA;

EID: 84893172131     PISSN: 0255660X     EISSN: 09743006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12524-013-0332-x     Document Type: Article

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