Modeling spatio-temporal distribution of soil moisture by deep learning-based cellular automata model

Journal of Arid Land

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 734-748

  Song, Xiaodong ^a   Zhang, Ganlin ^a   Liu, Feng ^a   Li, Decheng ^a   Zhao, Yuguo ^a   Yang, Jinling ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

deep belief network (DBN); hydropedology; macroscopic cellular automata (MCA); multi layer perceptron (MLP); soil moisture; soil moisture sensor network; uncertainty assessment

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; HYDROLOGY; MOISTURE CONTENT; PEDOLOGY; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84977156284     PISSN: 16746767     EISSN: 21947783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40333-016-0049-0     Document Type: Article

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