A high resolution map of soil types and physical properties for Cyprus: A digital soil mapping optimization

Geoderma

Volumn 285, Issue , 2017, Pages 35-49

  Camera, Corrado ^a   Zomeni, Zomenia ^b   Noller, Jay S ^c   Zissimos, Andreas M ^b   Christoforou, Irene C ^b   Bruggeman, Adriana ^a  

^a CYPRUS INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

^b Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources Cyprus   (Cyprus)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyprus; Digital soil mapping; Model optimization; Random Forest; Soil landscape model; World Reference Base

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION TREES; ERRORS; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MAPPING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; STATISTICAL TESTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CYPRUS; DIGITAL SOIL MAPPINGS; MODEL OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM FORESTS; SOIL-LANDSCAPE MODELS; WORLD REFERENCE BASE;

SOIL TESTING;

CLASSIFICATION; DIGITAL MAPPING; GEOCHEMISTRY; OPTIMIZATION; PREDICTION; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL STRUCTURE; SOIL TEXTURE; SOIL TYPE;

CYPRUS;

EID: 84988953642     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2016.09.019     Document Type: Article

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