Regional Soil Mapping Using Multi-Grade Representative Sampling and a Fuzzy Membership-Based Mapping Approach

Pedosphere

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 344-357

  YANG, Lin ^a   ZHU, A Xing ^a,b,c   ZHAO, Yuguo ^a   LI, Decheng ^a   ZHANG, Ganlin ^a   ZHANG, Shujie ^d   BAND, Lawrence E ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d China Academy of Urban Planning and Design   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

fuzzy clustering; parent lithology; representative grade; sampling strategy; soil spatial variations

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LITHOLOGY; MAPPING METHOD; ORGANIC CARBON; PARENT MATERIAL; SAMPLING; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEPTH; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANHUI; CHINA;

EID: 85014401881     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(17)60322-9     Document Type: Article

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