Crop and Soil Management Zone Delineation Based on Soil Property or Yield Classification

2012 ◽  
pp. 223-240
Author(s):  
Michael S. Cox ◽  
Patrick D. Gerard
2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Set Foong Ng ◽  
Pei Eng Ch’ng ◽  
Yee Ming Chew ◽  
Kok Shien Ng

Soil properties are very crucial for civil engineers to differentiate one type of soil from another and to predict its mechanical behavior. However, it is not practical to measure soil properties at all the locations at a site. In this paper, an estimator is derived to estimate the unknown values for soil properties from locations where soil samples were not collected. The estimator is obtained by combining the concept of the ‘Inverse Distance Method’ into the technique of ‘Kriging’. The method of Lagrange Multipliers is applied in this paper. It is shown that the estimator derived in this paper is an unbiased estimator. The partiality of the estimator with respect to the true value is zero. Hence, the estimated value will be equal to the true value of the soil property. It is also shown that the variance between the estimator and the soil property is minimised. Hence, the distribution of this unbiased estimator with minimum variance spreads the least from the true value. With this characteristic of minimum variance unbiased estimator, a high accuracy estimation of soil property could be obtained.


1960 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-57
Author(s):  
Richard Bradfield
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1976 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-69
Author(s):  
D. L. Mokma ◽  
L. S. Robertson

1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-153
Author(s):  
Jane Mt. Pleasant
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