Predictive mapping of soil organic carbon stocks in South Australia's agricultural zone

Soil Research

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 956-973

  Liddicoat, Craig ^a,b   Maschmedt, David ^a   Clifford, David ^c   Searle, Ross ^c   Herrmann, Tim ^a   Macdonald, Lynne M ^c   Baldock, Jeff ^c  

^a Water and Natural Resources ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

digital soil mapping; geostatistics; LASSO; pedotransfer function; soil organic carbon; spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; FORECASTING; MAPPING; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; ORGANIC CARBON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL SURVEYS;

DIGITAL SOIL MAPPINGS; GEO-STATISTICS; LASSO; PEDO-TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DATA SET; DIGITAL MAP; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84946553648     PISSN: 1838675X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SR15100     Document Type: Article

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