Soil spatial variability in small Greek apple orchards

Precision Agriculture 2007 - Papers Presented at the 6th European Conference on Precision Agriculture, ECPA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 71-78

  Aggelopoulou, K D ^a   Pateras, D ^b   Fountas, S ^a   Gemtos, T A ^a   Nanos, G D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fertilization maps; Malus domestica; Soil sampling; Variograms

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION OF FERTILIZERS; CATION EXCHANGE CAPACITIES; MALUS DOMESTICA; ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT; SOIL PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; SOIL SAMPLING; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; VARIOGRAMS;

AGRICULTURE; CALCIUM; FRUITS; ORCHARDS;

SOILS;

EID: 84893200424     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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