Retrieving pedologist's mental model from existing soil map and comparing data mining tools for refining a larger area map under similar environmental conditions in Southeastern Brazil

• Published in: Geoderma Vol. 267; pp. 65 - 77
• Main Authors: Silva, Sérgio Henrique Godinho, Menezes, Michele Duarte de, Owens, Phillip Ray, Curi, Nilton
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.04.2016
• Subjects: Accuracy; Brazil; Cost-constrained conditioned Latin hypercube sampling scheme; Data mining; decision support systems; Decision trees; Digital soil mapping; environmental factors; Fuzzy logic; Inference; Knowledge acquisition; landscapes; Mapping; Mathematical models; refining; soil; Soil (material); Soil maps; Tropical soils; watersheds; Brazil, Minas Gerais; Brazil; mrvbf; ArcSIE; CCLH; SWI; Digital soil mapping; Knowledge acquisition; TWI; MUP; mrrtf; Data mining; DEM; TA; Et; Hx; Dt; CBP; Fuzzy logic; VDCN; SoLIM; Ax; Tropical soils; Cost-constrained conditioned Latin hypercube sampling scheme

Diverse projects are being carried out worldwide focusing on development of more accurate soil maps and one of the most valuable sources of data are the existing soil maps. This work aimed to (i) compare two data mining tools, KnowledgeMiner and decision trees, to retrieve legacy soil data from a de...