Large-scale spatial interpolation of soil pH across the Loess Plateau, China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2731-2741

  Liu, Zhi Peng ^a,b   Shao, Ming An ^c   Wang, Yun Qiang ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Interpolation accuracy; Inverse distance weighting; Kriging; Splines

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRONOMY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; ERRORS; INTERPOLATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; ORGANIC CARBON; PH; SEDIMENTS; SPLINES;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; GEO-STATISTICS; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTING; KRIGING; LOESS PLATEAU OF CHINAS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER CONTENTS;

SOILS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; LAND USE; MAPPING; PH; SITE INVESTIGATION; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84906912982     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-2095-z     Document Type: Article

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