Modelling Soil Water Contents at Field Capacity and Permanent Wilting Point Using Artificial Neural Network for Indian Soils

National Academy Science Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 373-377

  Mohanty, M ^a   Sinha, Nishant K ^a   Painuli, D K ^b   Bandyopadhyay, K K ^c   Hati, K M ^a   Sammi Reddy, K ^d   Chaudhary, R S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE   (India)

^b CENTRAL ARID ZONE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR DRYLAND AGRICULTURE   (India)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Field capacity; Pedotransfer function; Wilting point

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945389595     PISSN: 0250541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40009-015-0358-4     Document Type: Article

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