Comparing spatial and non-spatial approaches for predicting forest soil organic carbon at unsampled locations

Mathematical and Computational Forestry and Natural-Resource Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 115-125

  Clough, Brian J ^a   Green, Edwin J ^a  

^a The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Co kriging; Coastal plain; Forest soil carbon; Geostatistics; New jersey; Regression

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERPOLATION; LANDFORMS; LINEAR REGRESSION; LOCATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; ORGANIC CARBON; SOILS;

CO-KRIGING; COASTAL PLAIN; FOREST SOILS; GEO-STATISTICS; NEW JERSEY; REGRESSION;

PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS;

AUTOCORRELATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOREST SOIL; GEOSTATISTICS; ORGANIC CARBON; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CARBON; COASTS; FORESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL;

NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84894076887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19467664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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