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Computerized quality control, statistics and regional mapping of the concentrations of trace and major elements in the soil of England and Wales
Author(s) -
McGrath S.P.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
soil use and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.709
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1475-2743
pISSN - 0266-0032
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-2743.1987.tb00706.x
Subject(s) - software , control (management) , quality (philosophy) , trace (psycholinguistics) , computer science , statistics , environmental science , data mining , remote sensing , hydrology (agriculture) , geography , mathematics , engineering , artificial intelligence , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology , programming language , geotechnical engineering
. An automated system for the chemical analysis of large numbers of soil samples from a national survey has been developed. Computers are used for the quality control and the management of the resulting data. The software for this includes checks for possible errors thereby minimizing them. Human intervention is necessary only to correct them. Additionally, the data are analysed statistically and the geographical distribution automatically displayed in map form. Much of the software runs interactively, enabling rapid reporting of results and mapping of specific areas cheaply and swiftly with little effort from the operator.