Preprocessing procedures and supervised classification applied to a database of systematic soil survey

ABSTRACT: Data Mining techniques play an important role in the prediction of soil spatial distribution in systematic soil surveying, though existing methodologies still lack standardization and a full understanding of their capabilities. The aim of this work was to evaluate the performance of preprocessing procedures and supervised classification approaches for predicting map units from 1:100,000-scale conventional semi-detailed soil surveys. Sheets of the Brazilian National Cartographic System on the 1:50,000 scale, “Dois Córregos” (“Brotas” 1:100,000-scale sheet), “São Pedro” a...