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An appropriate data set size for digital soil mapping in Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Alexandre ten Caten, Ricardo Simão Diniz Dalmolin, Fabrício de Araújo Pedron, Luis Fernando Chimelo Ruiz, Carlos Antônio da Silva

01/Apr/2013

Digital information generates the possibility of a high degree of redundancy in the data available for fitting predictive models used for Digital Soil Mapping (DSM). Among these models, the Decision Tree (DT) technique has been increasingly applied due to its capacity of dealing with large datasets. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of the data volume used to generate the DT models on the quality of soil maps. An area of 889.33 km² was chosen in […]