Semi-automated disaggregation of a conventional soil map using knowledge driven data mining and random forests in the Sonoran desert, USA

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 353-366

  Nauman, Travis W ^a,b   Thompson, James A ^b   Rasmussen, Craig ^c  

^a USDA NRCS   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

FIELD VALIDATION; GROWING DEMAND; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAND USE PLANNING; PREDICTIVE MODELING; RANDOM FOREST MODELING; RANDOM FORESTS; SONORAN DESERT;

SOILS;

EID: 84898469854     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.80.4.353     Document Type: Article

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