Digital soil property mapping and uncertainty estimation using soil class probability rasters

Geoderma

Volumn 237, Issue , 2015, Pages 190-198

  Odgers, Nathan P ^a   McBratney, Alex B ^a   Minasny, Budiman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Digital soil property mapping; Prediction interval; Probability rasters; Uncertainty estimation; Weighted means

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; FORECASTING; MAPPING; PH; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SOILS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; PREDICTION INTERVAL; PROFILE OBSERVATIONS; SOIL PROPERTY; SPATIAL DISAGGREGATION; TRIANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION; WEIGHTED MEAN;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ALGORITHM; DIGITAL MAPPING; PH; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RASTER; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL PROPERTY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84900835265     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2014.09.009     Document Type: Article

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