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Title (Primary) Cluster analysis of geophysical field data: an approach for reasonable partitioning of sites
Title (Secondary) 19th World Congress of Soil Science, Soil Solutions for a Changing World, 1-6 August 2010, Brisbane, Australia
Author Altdorff, D.; Dietrich, P. ORCID logo
Year 2010
Department MET
Page From 41
Page To 44
Language englisch
Keywords Rapid soil survey, geophysical approaches, soil moitrure, bulk density, electromagnetic induction
Abstract For land management options, a sharp partitioning of areas is suitable. However, applied soil science usually provides integrated data and different information from identical sites and does not supply a partitioning in respect to all variables. In this paper, we describe a way for deriving reasonable partitioning of sites from multidimensional data sets by an integrated statistical approach: the clustering of different discrete field data. For this purpose, two separate work packages (WP) are suggested. In the first WP, sets of different data are standardize and discretize in order to get collocated data on predefined locations This step is precondition for further processing of multi-dimensional statistical analysis. The second WP leads from the different sets of collocated data to a map of partitions representing different soil units. Using an example of field data, we could show that cluster analysis works as a useful tool for site partitioning.
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Altdorff, D., Dietrich, P. (2010):
Cluster analysis of geophysical field data: an approach for reasonable partitioning of sites
19th World Congress of Soil Science, Soil Solutions for a Changing World, 1-6 August 2010, Brisbane, Australia
41 - 44