The use of remote sensing in soil and terrain mapping — A review

Geoderma - Tập 162 Số 1-2 - Trang 1-19 - 2011
Vera Leatitia Mulder1, Sytze de Bruin1, Michael E. Schaepman1,2, Thomas Mayr3
1Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
2Remote Sensing Laboratories, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
3National Soil Resources Institute, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire MK43 0AL, United Kingdom

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