Impacts of the influx of e-waste into Hong Kong after China has tightened up entry regulations

S Lin, YB Man, KL Chow, C Zheng… - Critical Reviews in …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
China was the world's largest importer of e-waste in the 2000s, with e-waste entering the
country via different pathways. It was treated informally by using primitive techniques. Since …

Spatial disaggregation of complex soil map units: a decision-tree based approach in Bavarian forest soils

T Häring, E Dietz, S Osenstetter, T Koschitzki… - Geoderma, 2012 - Elsevier
Detailed knowledge on the spatial distribution of soils is crucial for environmental
monitoring, management, and modeling. However soil maps with a finite number of discrete …

[HTML][HTML] Actualización del mapa de suelos del Estado de Yucatán México: Enfoque geomorfopedológico y WRB

F Bautista, O Frausto, T Ihl, Y Aguilar - Ecosistemas y recursos …, 2015 - scielo.org.mx
El objetivo del trabajo fue identificar las relaciones entre los ambientes geomorfológicos,
geoformas y suelos del estado de Yucatán. Se elaboró un modelo digital de elevación …

Coping with imbalanced data problem in digital mapping of soil classes

A Sharififar, F Sarmadian - European Journal of Soil Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
An unsolved problem in the digital mapping of categorical soil variables and soil types is the
imbalanced number of observations, which leads to reduced accuracy and the loss of the …

Digital soil mapping based on wavelet decomposed components of environmental covariates

XL Sun, HL Wang, YG Zhao, C Zhang, GL Zhang - Geoderma, 2017 - Elsevier
Multi-scale soil variations are increasingly employed to improve the accuracy for digital soil
mapping (DSM). In this study, we attempted to explore a methodology of wavelet analysis on …

Digital soil mapping in a low-relief landscape to support wetland restoration decisions

MA Goldman, BA Needelman, MC Rabenhorst… - Geoderma, 2020 - Elsevier
Efforts to utilize conventional soil maps in wetland conservation and restoration planning are
often hampered by the coarse scale of the soil maps relative to the scale of restoration …

Cladistic analysis of Chinese soil taxonomy

J Huang, MC Ebach, J Triantafilis - Geoderma Regional, 2017 - Elsevier
This study attempts to revise the search for natural groups and soil properties in Chinese
soils based on the ideas of biological classification and soil genesis. Previous attempts at …

High-resolution digital soil mapping of multiple soil properties: an alternative to the traditional field survey?

T Flynn, W De Clercq, A Rozanov… - South African Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Spatial information on soil particle size distribution and soil organic carbon (SOC) are
important for land-use management, environmental models and policy-making. Digital soil …

Sensitivity of digital soil maps based on FCM to the fuzzy exponent and the number of clusters

XL Sun, YG Zhao, HL Wang, L Yang, CZ Qin, AX Zhu… - Geoderma, 2012 - Elsevier
Fuzzy c-means clustering (FCM) has been used frequently in digital soil mapping. One of the
key issues in applying FCM is the determination of the appropriate classification parameters …

Uncertainty analysis for the evaluation of agricultural soil quality based on digital soil maps

XL Sun, SC Wu, HL Wang, YG Zhao… - Soil Science Society …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial soil quality information is needed for the agricultural development in Hong Kong.
This study produced digital maps of more than 20 soil quality indicators of a study area in …