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Research Papers in Refereed International Journals

A.B. McBratney, M.L. Mendonça Santos & B. Minasny (2002). On digital soil mapping. Geoderma (submitted 15/11/2002. GEODER 2113)

K.Islam, B. Singh & A.B. McBratney (2002) Simultaneous estimation of various soil properties by ultra-violet, visible and near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy. Ausralian Journal of Soil Research (submitted 10/2002)

J. Triantafilis, I.O.A. Odeh, B. Minasny & A.B. McBratney (2003). Elucidation of physiographic and hydrogeological units using fuzzy k-means classification of EM34 data in the lower Namoi valley. Environmental Modelling and Software (in press).

C. Walter, A.B. McBratney, R.A. Viscarra Rossel & J.A. Markus (2002). A spatial point-process analysis of lead contamination in Glebe, New South Wales. Environmetrics (submitted 07/02.)

B. Singh, I.O.A. Odeh & A.B. McBratney (2002). Acid buffering capacity and potential acidification of cotton soils in northern New South Wales Ausralian Journal of Soil Research (revision submitted 10/02)

C. Walter, R.A. Viscarra Rossel & A.B. McBratney (2000). Spatio-temporal simulation of the field-scale evolution of organic carbon over the landscape.. Soil Science Society of America Journal (Revised & resubmitted 18/7/02)

M.J. Pringle, A.B. McBratney & S.E. Cook. (2001). Field-scale experiments for the continuous site-specific management of controllable inputs. Precision Agriculture (Submitted 20/6/2001).

R.A. Viscarra Rossel & A.B. McBratney (2003). Modelling the kinetics of buffer reactions for rapid field predictions of lime requirements.Geoderma 114, 49 - 63

Budiman Minasny & A.B. McBratney. (2003). Integral energy as a measure of soil-water availability. Plant & Soil 249, 253-262.

Pringle, M.J., McBratney, A.B., Whelan, B.M. & Taylor, J.A. (2003) A preliminary approach to assessing the opportunity for site-specific crop management in a field, using yield monitor data. Agricultural Systems 76, 273-292

F. Carré, A.B. McBratney & M.C. Girard (2002). Cartogénèse numérique des types de sols et de leurs incertitudes par la combinaison de corrélations sur les facteurs environnementaux et des géostatistiques. Application aux sols des environs de La Rochelle. Photo-Interprétation (Editions ESKA, Paris) 38, Issue 3-4, 25-39.

R.D. Cousens, R.W. Brown, A.B. McBratney, B. Whelan, M. Moerkerk (2002) Sampling strategy is important for producing weed maps: a case study using kriging. Weed Science 50, 542-546.

J.A. Cattle, A.B. McBratney & B. Minasny (2002). Kriging method evaluation for assessing the spatial distribution of urban soil lead contamination. Journal of Environmental Quality 31, 1576-1588.

Budiman Minasny & A.B. McBratney. (2002). Uncertainty analysis for pedotransfer functions. European Journal of Soil Science 53, 417-430.

A.B. McBratney., Budiman Minasny, S.R. Cattle & R.W. Vervoort. (2002). From pedotransfer to soil inference systems. Geoderma 109, 41-73.

Budiman Minasny & A.B. McBratney. (2002). The efficiency of various approaches to obtaining estimates of soil hydraulic properties. Geoderma 107, 55-70.

Budiman Minasny & A.B. McBratney. (2002). The neuro-m method for fitting neural network pedotransfer functions. Soil Science Society of America Journal 66, 332-361.

C. M Stewart, A.B. McBratney & J.H. Skerritt. (2002). Site-specific durum wheat quality and its relationship to soil properties in a single field in northern New South Wales. Precision Agriculture 3, 155-168.

B.M. Whelan & A.B. McBratney. (2002). A parametric transfer function for grain-flow within a conventional combine harvester. Precision Agriculture 3, 123-134.

T.F.A. Bishop & A.B. McBratney. (2002). Creating field extent digital elevation models for Precision Agriculture. Precision Agriculture 3, 37-46.

B. Boydell & A.B. McBratney. (2002). Indentifying potential within-field management zones from cotton-yield estimates. Precision Agriculture 3, 9-23.

B.M. Whelan & A.B. McBratney. (2001). An approach to deconvoluting grain-flow within a conventional combine harvester using a parametric transfer function. Precision Agriculture 2, 389-398.

B.M. Whelan & A.B. McBratney. (2001). The 'null hypothesis' of precision agriculture management. Precision Agriculture 2, 265-279.

Budiman Minasny & A.B. McBratney. (2001). The Australian soil texture boomerang: a comparison of the Australian and USDA/FAO soil particle-size classification systems.Australian Journal of Soil Research 39, 1443-1451.

D.C. McKenzie, S.E. Greenhalgh, AJ. Koppi, D.A. MacLeod & A.B. McBratney. (2001). Assessment of cotton root growth in compacted Vertisols (Grey Vertosols). II. Correlation with image analysis parameters. Australian Journal of Soil Research 39, 1169-1181.

D.C. McKenzie & A.B. McBratney. (2001). Assessment of cotton root growth in compacted Vertisol (Grey Vertosol). I. prediction using strength measurements and 'limiting water ranges'. Australian Journal of Soil Research 39, 1157-1168.

Markus, J.A. & McBratney, A.B. (2001). A review of the contamination of soil with lead: II. Spatial distribution and risk assessment of soil lead. Environment International 27, 399-411.

R.A. Viscarra Rossel, P. Goovaerts & A.B. McBratney. (2001). Assessment of the production and economic risks of site-specific liming using geostatistical uncertainty modelling. Environmetrics 12, 699-711.

Budiman Minasny & A.B. McBratney. (2001). A rudimentary mechanistic model for soil production and landscape development II. A two-dimensional model. Geoderma 103, 161-179.

T.F.A. Bishop & A.B. McBratney. (2001). A comparison of prediction methods for the creation of field-extent soil property maps. Geoderma 103, 149-160.

T.F.A. Bishop, A.B. McBratney & B. M. Whelan (2001). Measuring the quality of digital soil maps using information criteria. Geoderma 103, 95-111.

LJ Rew, B Whelan & A.B. McBratney (2001) Does kriging predict weed distributions acurately enough for site-specific weed control? Weed Research 41, 245-263.

J. Triantafilis, I.O.A. Odeh & A.B. McBratney (2001). Five geostatistical models to predict soil salinity from electromagnetic induction data across irrigated cotton Soil Science Society of America Journal 65, 868-878.

A.E. Hartemink, A.B. McBratney & J.A. Cattle (2001) Developments and trends in soil science – 100 Volumes of Geoderma (1967-2001). Geoderma 100, 217-268.

Walter, C., A.B. McBratney, A. Douaoui, B. Minasny. (2001). Spatial prediction of topsoil salinity in the Chelif valley, Algeria using ordinary kriging with local variograms versus a whole-area variogram. Australian Journal of Soil Research 39, 259-272.

J. Triantafilis, W.T. Ward & A.B. McBratney (2001). Land suitability assessment in the Namoi Valley of Australia, using a continuous model. Australian Journal of Soil Research 39, 273-290.

J. Triantafilis, W.T. Ward, I.O.A. Odeh & A.B. McBratney (2001). Creation and interpolation of continuous soil layer classes in the lower Namoi valley. Soil Science Society of America Journal 65, 403-413.

R.A. Viscarra Rossel & A.B. McBratney (2001). A response-surface regression calibration model for rapid and versatile site-specific liming predictions in south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Soil Research 39, 185-201.

R.A. Viscarra Rossel & A.B. McBratney (2000). A two-factor empriical determisitic reponse surface calibration model for site-specific predictions of lime requirement. Precision Agriculture 2, 163-178.

Markus, J.A. & McBratney, A.B. (2000). A review of the contamination of soil with lead: I. Origin, occurrence and chemical form of soil lead. Progress in Environmental Science 2, 291-318.

J.A. Markus, & A.B. McBratney (2000). Urban soil and its classification with respect to heavy metal contamination. Progress in Environmental Science 2, 252-265.

Budiman Minasny & A.B. McBratney (2000). Evaluation and development of hydraulic conductivity pedotransfer functions for Australian Soil. Australian Journal of Soil Research 38, 905-926.

A.B. McBratney, I.O.A. Odeh, T.F.A. Bishop , M.S. Dunbar and T.M. Shatar (2000). An overview of pedometric techniques for use in soil survey. Geoderma 97, 293-327.

I.O.A. Odeh & A.B. McBratney 2000. Using AVHRR images for spatial prediction of clay content in the lower Namoi valley of eastern Australia. Geoderma 97, 237-254.

A.B. McBratney, T .F. A. Bishop & I. S. Teliatnikov (2000). Two soil profile reconstruction techniques. Geoderma 97, 209-221.

J. Triantafilis, G.M. Laslett & A.B. McBratney (2000). Calibrating an electromagnetic induction instrument to measure salinity in soil under irrigated cotton. Soil Science Society of America Journal 64, 1009-1017.

F. Yan, A.B. McBratney, & L. Copeland. (2000). Functional substrate diversity of cultivated and uncultivated A horizons of vertisols in NW New South Wales. Geoderma 96, 321-343.

A.N. Anderson, J.W. Crawford & A.B. McBratney. (2000). On diffusion in fractal soil structures. Soil Science Society of America Journal 64, 19-24.

Budiman Minasny & A.B. McBratney. (2000). Estimation of sorptivity from disc permeameter measurements. Geoderma 95, 305-324.

Shatar, T.M. & McBratney, A.B. (1999). Empirical modeling of relationships between sorghum yield and soil properties. Precision Agriculture 1, 249-276.

Budiman Minasny, A.B. McBratney & K.L. Bristow (1999). Comparison of different approaches to the development of pedotransfer functions for water-retention curves. Geoderma 93, 225-253.

A.B. McBratney & M.J. Pringle (1999). Estimating average and proportional variograms of soil properties and their potential use in Precision Agriculture. Precision Agriculture 1, 219-236.

T.F.A. Bishop, A.B. McBratney & G.M. Laslett. (1999) Modelling soil attribute depth functions with equal-area quadratic smoothing splines). Geoderma 91, 27-45.

Budiman Minasny & A.B. McBratney. (1999). A rudimentary mechanistic model for soil production and landscape development. Geoderma 90, 3-21.

R.A. Viscarra Rossel & A.B. McBratney. (1998). Soil chemical analytical accuracy and costs: implications from precision agriculture. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 38, 765-775.

R.A. Viscarra Rossel & A.B. McBratney. (1998). Laboratory evaluation of a proximal sensing technique for simultaneous measurement of soil clay and water content. Geoderma 85, 19-39.

A.N. Anderson, A.B. McBratney & J.W. Crawford. (1998). Applications of fractals to soil studies. Advances in Agronomy 63, 1–76.

I.O.A. Odeh, A.J. Todd, J. Triantafilis & A.B. McBratney. (1998). Status and trends of soil salinity at different scales: the case for the irrigated cotton growing region of eastern Australia. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 50, 99–109.*

A.B. McBratney. (1998). Some considerations on methods for spatially aggregating and disgaggregating soil information. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 50, 51–62.**

R.Webster & A.B. McBratney. (1997) In Discussion of: D.J. Brus and J.J. de Gruijter, Random sampling or geostatistical modelling? Choosing between design-based and model-based sampling strategies for soil. Geoderma 80, 53–54.**

S.A. Mazaheri, A.B. McBratney & A.J. Koppi. (1997). Sensitivity of memberships to attribute variation around slected centroids and intragrades in the continuous Australian Great Soil Groups classification system. Geoderma 77, 155–168.

A.B. McBratney & I.O.A. Odeh. (1997). Application of fuzzy sets in soil science: fuzzy logic, fuzzy measurements and fuzzy decisions. Geoderma 77, 85–113.

C.J. Moran & A.B. McBratney. (1997) A two-dimensional fuzzy random model of soil pore structure. Mathematical Geology 29, 755–777.**

J.M. Kabrick, M.K. Clayton, A.B. McBratney & K. McSweeney. (1997). Cradle-knoll patterns and characteristics on drumlins in northeastern Wisconsin. Soil Science Society of America Journal 61, 595–603. **

A.B. McBratney. (1996) In Discussion of: D.G. Rossiter, A thoeretical framework for land evaluation. Geoderma 72, 198-199.***

A.N. Anderson & A.B. McBratney & E.A. FitzPatrick. (1996). Estimation of the soil mass, surface and spectral fractal dimensions from photographs of soil thin sections. Soil Science Society of America Journal 60, 962–969. **

J.A. Markus & A.B. McBratney (1996). An urban soil study: heavy metals in Glebe, Australia. Australian Journal of Soil Research 34, 453–465. **

S.A. Mazaheri, A..J. Koppi & A.B. McBratney. (1995) An allocation scheme for the Australian Great Soil Groups Classification system. European Journal of Soil Science 46, 601–612. **

A.N. Anderson & A.B. McBratney (1995). Soil aggregates as mass fractals. Australian Journal of Soil Research 33, 757–772. **

I.O.A. Odeh, A.B. McBratney and D.J. Chittleborough (1995) Further results on spatial prediction of soil properties from landform attributes derived from digital elevation models: heterotopic cokriging and regression-kriging models. Geoderma 67, 215–226. **

B.M. Whelan, A.J. Koppi, A.B. McBratney and W.J. Dougherty (1995). An instrument for the in-situ characterisation of soil structural stability based on the relative intrinsic permeabilities to air and water. Geoderma 65, 209–222.*

J.A. Lytton-Hitchins, A.J. Koppi and A.B. McBratney (1994). The soil condition of adjacent bio-dynamic and conventionally managed dairy pastures in Victoria, Australia. Soil Use and Management 10, 79–87. *

A.B. McBratney (1993). Comments on “Fractal dimensions of soil aggregate–size distributions calculated by number and mass”. Soil Science Society of America Journal 57, 1393.

A.B. McBratney (1994). Allocation of new individuals to continuous soil classes. Australian Journal of Soil Research 32, 623–633.

S.R. Cattle, A.J. Koppi and A.B. McBratney (1994). The effect of cultivation on the properties of a Rhodoxeralf from the wheat/sheep belt of New South Wales. Geoderma 63, 215–225. *

I.O.A. Odeh, A.B. McBratney and D.J. Chittleborough (1994). Spatial prediction of soil properties from landform attributes derived from a digital elevation model Geoderma 63, 197–214.**

A.N. Pettitt and A.B. McBratney (1993). Sampling designs for estimating spatial variance components. Applied Statistics 42, 185–209.**

A.B. McBratney (1993). Some remarks on soil horizon classes. Catena 20, 427–430.

I.O.A. Odeh, A.B. McBratney and D.J. Chittleborough (1992). Fuzzy c-means and kriging for mapping soil as a continuous system. Soil Science Society of America Journal 56, 1848–1854.**

A.B. McBratney (1992). On variation, uncertainty and informatics in environmental soil management. Australian Journal of Soil Research 30, 913–935.

C.J. Moran and A.B. McBratney (1992). Acquisition and analysis of three–component digital images of soil pore structure. II. Application to seed beds in a fallow management trial. Journal of Soil Science. 43, 551–566.**

C.J. Moran and A.B. McBratney (1992. Acquisition and analysis of three–component digital images of soil pore structure. I. Method. Journal of Soil Science 43, 541–549.**

A.B. McBratney, J.J. de Gruijter and D.J. Brus (1992). Spacial prediction and mapping of continuous soil classes. Geoderma 54, 39–64.***

C.J. Moran and A.B. McBratney (1992). Image measurement and modelling of the two–dimensional spatial distribution of wheat straw. Geoderma 53, 201–216.**

A.B. McBratney, C.J. Moran, S.R. Cattle, J.B. Stewart and A.J. Koppi (1992). Modifications to a method of rapid assessment of soil macropore structure by image analysis. Geoderma 53, 255–274. **

I.O.A. Odeh, A.B. McBratney, and D.J. Chittleborough. (1992). Soil pattern recognition with fuzzy c–means: application to classification and soil–landform interrelationships. Soil Science Society of America Journal 65, 505–516. **

A.B. McBratney and J.J. de Gruijter (1992). A continuum approach to soil classification by modified fuzzy k–means with extragrades. Journal of Soil Science 43, 159–175.***

B.Powell, A.B. McBratney and D.A. MacLeod (1992). Fuzzy classification of soil profiles and horizons from the Lockyer Valley, Queensland, Australia. Geoderma 52, 173–197.**

M.R. Wild, A.J. Koppi, D.J. McKenzie and A.B. McBratney (1992). The effect of tillage and gypsum application on the macropore structure of an Australian Vertisol used for irrigated cotton. Soil and Tillage Research 22, 55–71.*

I.O.A. Odeh, D.J. Chittleborough and A.B. McBratney (1991). Elucidation of soil–landform interrelationships by canonical ordination analysis. Geoderma 49, 1–32. **

A.J. Koppi and A.B. McBratney (1991). A basis for soil mesomorphological analysis. Journal of Soil Science 42, 139–146.**

P.P. Cavanagh, A.J. Koppi and A.B. McBratney (1991). The effects of minimum cultivation after three years on some physical and chemical properties of a red–brown earth at Forbes, NSW. Australian Journal of Soil Research 29, 263–270.*

P.J. Commins, A.B. McBratney and A.J. Koppi (1991). Development of a technique for the measurement of root geometry in the soil using resin–impregnated blocks and image analysis. Journal of Soil Science 42, 237–250. **

G.M. Laslett and A.B. McBratney (1990). Estimation and implications of instrumental drift, measurement error and nugget variance of spatial soil attributes – a case study for soil pH. Journal of Soil Science 41, 451–471.**

A.B. McBratney, G. A. Hart and D. McGarry (1991). The use of region partitioning to improve the representation of geostatistically mapped soil attributes. Journal of Soil Science 42, 513–531.***

B.Powell, A.B. McBratney and D.A. MacLeod (1991). The application of fuzzy classification to soil pH profiles in the Lockyer Valley, Queensland, Australia. Catena 18, 409–420.**

C.J. Moran and A.B. McBratney (1991). STRUCTURA: A C program for estimating attributes of two–phase, heterogeneous structures digitized from planar specimens. Computers & Geosciences 17, 335–350.**

A.K. Bregt, A.B. McBratney and M.C.S. Wopereis (1991). Construction of isolinear maps of soil attributes with empirical confidence regions. Soil Science Society of America Journal 55, 14–19.**

G.M. Laslett and A.B. McBratney (1990). A further comparison of spatial prediction methods for soil pH. Soil Science Society of America Journal 54, 1553–1558.**

I.O.A.. Odeh, A.B. McBratney, and D.J. Chittleborough (1990). Design of optimal sample spacings for mapping soil using fuzzy k–means and regionalized variable theory. Geoderma 47, 93–122.**

A.B. McBratney and C.J. Moran (1990). A rapidmethod for the analysis of soil macropore structure. II. Stereological model, statistical analysis and interpretation. Soil Science Society of America Journal 54, 509–515.***

C.J. Moran, A.B. McBratney, A.J. Ringrose–Voase and C.J. Chartres (1989). A method for the dehydration and impregnation of clay soil. Journal of Soil Science 40, 569–575. **

R. Webster and A.B. McBratney (1989). A note on the use of the Akaike Information Criterion for choosing variograms for soil properties. Journal of Soil Science 40, 493–496.**

C.J. Moran, A.B. McBratney and A.J. Koppi (1989). A rapid method for the analysis of soil macropore structure. I. Specimen preparation and digital binary image production. Soil Science Society of America Journal 53, 921–928.**

M.B. Dale, A.B. McBratney and J.S. Russell (1989). On the role of expert systems and numerical taxonomy in soil classification. Journal of Soil Science 40, 223–234.**

C.J. Moran, A.B. McBratney and A.J. Koppi (1988). A micromorphometric method for estimating change in the volume of soil induced by weathering. Journal of Soil Science 39, 357–373.**

C.J. Moran, A.J. Koppi, B.W. Murphy and A.B. McBratney (1988). Comparison of the macropore structure of a sandy loam surface soil horizon subjected to two tillage treatments. Soil Use and Management 4, 96–102.*

R. Webster and A.B. McBratney (1987). Mapping soil fertility at Broom’s Barn by simple kriging. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 38, 97–115.**

G.M. Laslett, A.B. McBratney, P.J. Pahl and M.F. Hutchinson (1987). Comparison of several spatial prediction methods for soil pH. Journal of Soil Science 38, 325–341.**

A.B. McBratney and R. Webster (1986). Choosing functions for semi–variograms of soil properties and fitting them to sampling estimates. Journal of Soil Science 37, 617–639.***

A.B. McBratney and A.W. Moore (1985). Application of fuzzy sets to climatic classification. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 35, 165–185.***

A.B. McBratney and R. Webster (1983). Optimal interpolation and isarithmic mapping of soil properties. V. Co–regionalization and multiple sampling strategy. Journal of Soil Science 34, 137–162.***

A.B. McBratney and R. Webster (1983). How big a sample is needed for regional estimation of soil properties? Soil Science 135, 177–183.***

A.B. McBratney, R. Webster, R.G. McLaren and R.B. Spiers (1982). Regional variation of extractable copper and cobalt in the topsoil of south–east Scotland. Agronomie 2, 969–982.***

A.B. McBratney and R. Webster (1981). The design of optimal sampling schemes for local estimation and mapping of regionalised variables. II. Program and examples. Computers & Geosciences 7, 335–365.***

A.B. McBratney, R. Webster and T.M. Burgess (1981). The design of optimal sampling schemes for local estimation and mapping of regionalised variables. I. Theory and method. Computers & Geosciences 7, 331–334.***

T.M. Burgess, R. Webster and A.B. McBratney (1981). Optimal interpolation and isarithmic mapping of soil properties. IV. Sampling strategy. Journal of Soil Science 32, 643–659.**

A.B. McBratney and R. Webster (1981). Spatial dependence and classification of the soil along a transect in northeast Scotland. Geoderma 26, 63–82.**

A.B. McBratney and R. Webster (1981). Detection of ridge and furrow pattern by spectral analysis of crop yield. International Statistical Review 49, 45–52.***

R. Webster and A.B. McBratney (1981). Soil segment overlap in character space and its implications for soil classification. Journal of Soil Science 32, 133–147.**