Mapping gamma radiation and its uncertainty from weathering products in a Tasmanian landscape with a proximal sensor and random forest kriging

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 735-748

  Viscarra Rossel, Raphael A ^a   Webster, Richard ^b   Kidd, Darren ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gamma radiation; Kriging; Proximal sensing; Radionuclides; Random forests; Spatial bootstrap; Tasmania

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; GAMMA RAYS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; INTERPOLATION; LITHOLOGY; POTASSIUM; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RIVERS; SENSORS; SOILS;

KRIGING; PROXIMAL SENSING; RANDOM FORESTS; SPATIAL BOOTSTRAP; TASMANIA;

WEATHERING;

BOOTSTRAPPING; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GAMMA RAY RADIATION; KRIGING; LANDSAT; MAPPING; RADIONUCLIDE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPOT; WEATHERING;

FORESTRY; GAMMA RAYS; POTASSIUM; RIVERS; SENSORS; SOIL;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 84898788715     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3476     Document Type: Article

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