Digital mapping of soil texture using radarsat-2 polarimetric synthetic aperture radar data

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 673-684

  Niang, Mohamed A ^a   Nolin, Michel C ^b   Jégo, Guillaume ^b   Perron, Isabelle ^b  

^a HAMAD BIN KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERPOLATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; POLARIMETERS; SILT; TEXTURES;

ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; GEOSTATISTICAL INTERPOLATION; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; PREDICTION ACCURACY; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION (SVR);

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; DIGITAL MAPPING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KRIGING; RADARSAT-2; SOIL SURFACE; SOIL TEXTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CANADA; MONTREAL; QUEBEC [CANADA]; ROUVILLE;

EID: 84901791338     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: 14350661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2013.07.0307     Document Type: Article

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