Soil compaction has become a widespread problem in the world and is one of the factors involved in land degradation and declining crop yields, especially in the arid and semi-arid agriculture. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of subsoil compaction on morphological, physiological and agronomic aspects of wheat .The research was carried out in the experimental farms of Anb...

The growth and yield of crops in the arid and semi-arid regions of the world is driven by the amount of soil moisture available to the crop through rainfall and irrigation. Various methods have been developed for quantifying the soil moisture status of agricultural crops. Recent technological advances in remote sensing have shown that soil moisture can be measured with a variety of remote sensi...

Soil compaction has become a widespread problem in the world and is one of the factors involved in land degradation and declining crop yields, especially in the arid and semi-arid agriculture. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of subsoil compaction on morphological, physiological and agronomic aspects of wheat .The research was carried out in the experimental farms of Anb...

soil erosion by water is the main factor of land degradation, particularly in semi-arid regions where soil productivity is usually low and lowering soil quality can severely decrease crops yields. this study was done in an area of 900 km2 in the semi-arid agricultural region of hashtroud in northwestern iran to determine the relationship between soil productivity and soil erodibility. wheat gra...

cantaloupe (cucumis melo var. cantalopensis) is an important vegetable crop and is grown on 35000 hectares in iran, mostly in tehran, markazi, qom, esfahan, khorasan, semnan, booshehr and hormozgan provinces. to improve local semsoori population for concentrated yielding, a breeding program was initiated in 2000 in varamin agricultural research center, varamin, iran. in the first step a mass se...

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Deep Blue (DB) algorithm was developed for aerosol retrieval on bright surfaces. Although the global validation accuracy of DB product is satisfactory, there are still some regions found to have very low accuracy. To this end, has updated surface database in latest version Collection 6.1 (C6.1) algorithm. Some studies shown that optical ...

this research aimed to evaluate the effect of planting seasons (autumn and spring) on 10 accessions of two species of astragalus effusus and astragalus brachyodontus in the field condition (homand absard station, damavand). after preparing the seedbed, the plant species were planted on two lines in 2 m, where the spacing between the lines of each accession was 0.5 m, and the spacing between the...

In the context of global climate change, it is important to monitor abnormal changes in extreme precipitation events that lead frequent floods. This research used indices describe variations and analyzed characteristics four climatic (arid, semi-arid, semi-humid humid) regions across China. The equidistant cumulative distribution function (EDCDF) method was downscale bias-correct daily eight Co...

This paper reports a practical application of digitally enhanced Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) data coupled with principal component analysis (PCA) and spectral angle mapping (SAM) techniques to assess changes in vegetation and land condition within the U.S. Army installation at Fort Bliss, Texas. Fort Bliss is located in a semi-arid desert environment wh...

The paleobiogeography of the theropod clade Compsognathidae is here reaccessed in order to test the hypothesis of this taxon being adapted specifically to inhabit semi-arid environments. Data about localities where these fossils were collected and their paleoenvironments were gathered from the literature. Compsognathids seem to be found especially in sedimentary deposits known as Fossil Lagerst...