Predictive Mapping of Topsoil Organic Carbon in an Alpine Environment Aided by Landsat TM

The objective of this study was to examine the reflectance of Landsat TM imagery for mapping soil organic Carbon (SOC) content in an Alpine environment. The studied area (ca. 3*104 km2) is the upper reaches of the Heihe River at the northeast edge of the Tibetan plateau, China. A set (105) of topsoi...

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Main Authors: Yang, Renmin, Rossiter, David G., Liu, Feng, Lu, Yuanyuan, Yang, Fan, Yang, Fei, Zhao, Yuguo, Li, Decheng, Zhang, Ganlin
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4608698/