Digital soil mapping for soil class prediction in a dry forest of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Investment on soil survey has become scarce over the past decades. Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) techniques emerged as an economic alternative to produce soil maps. We applied a classification tree algorithm to predict soil suborders in a tropical dry forest area with 102 km2 in the north of Minas Gerais state, Brazil. We tested environmental covariates with different spatial resolutions as predictors, and used 361 observations to train the model and 64 independent observations to validate the map. Prediction models included three decision trees and one logistic regression model. The results showed that freely available environmental covariates with coarser spatial resolution can produce as good or better suborder predictions than more expensive covariates with finer resolution.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	DART, R. de O., VASQUES, G. M., COELHO, M. R., FERNANDES, N. F.
Other Authors:	RICARDO DE OLIVEIRA DART, CNPS; GUSTAVO DE MATTOS VASQUES, CNPS; MAURICIO RIZZATO COELHO, CNPS; NELSON FERREIRA FERNANDES, UFRJ.
Format:	Separatas biblioteca
Language:	English eng
Published:	2016-02-02
Subjects:	Covariáveis ambientais, Árvore de classificação, Resolução espacial,
Online Access:	http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/1035920
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