Digital Soil Mapping Using Artificial Neural Networks and Terrain-Related Attributes

Pedosphere

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 580-591

  Bagheri Bodaghabadi, Mohsen ^a   MartÍnez Casasnovas, JoséAntonio ^b   Salehi, Mohammad Hasan ^c   Mohammadi, Jahangard ^c   Esfandiarpoor Borujeni, Isa ^d   Toomanian, Norair ^e   Gandomkar, Amir ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^c SHAHREKORD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d VALI E ASR UNIVERSITY OF RAFSANJAN   (Iran)

^e Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center   (Iran)

Author keywords

Digital elevation model attributes; Multilayer perceptron; Soil classification; Soil survey; Soil forming factors

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIGITAL MAPPING; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; SOIL SURVEY; TERRAIN;

EID: 84937546294     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(15)30038-2     Document Type: Article

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