Fuzzy modeling of farmers' knowledge for land suitability classification

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-75

  Sicat, Rodrigo S ^a   Carranza, Emmanuel John M ^b   Nidumolu, Uday Bhaskar ^c  

^a Regional Office No 9   (Philippines)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL REMOTE SENSING AGENCY   (India)

Author keywords

Agricultural land suitability; Farmers' knowledge; Fuzzy sets; GIS; Land use planning; Modeling

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GIS; KNOWLEDGE; LAND USE PLANNING; MODELING;

EID: 9944256269     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2004.03.002     Document Type: Article

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