Soil erosion rates in alpine regions are related to high spatial variability complicating assessment of risk and damages. A crucial parameter triggering soil erosion that can be derived from satellite imagery is fractional vegetation cover (FVC). The objective of this study is to assess the applicability of normalized differenced vegetation index (NDVI), linear spectral unmixing (LSU) andmixtur...

With the recently launched Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, it is very important to have a complete understanding of the radiative transfer model for better soil moisture retrievals and to direct future research and field campaigns in areas of necessity. Because natural systems show great variability and complexity with respect to soil, land cover, topography, precipitation, there e...

Abstract: One experimental area in the city of DaQing in Heilongjiang province is took as an example to perform the quantitative inversion of soil salinity using Hyperion data in this paper. The inversion method of soil salinity using Hyperion data is discussed by the image preprocessing, the feature extraction and the establishment of BP neural network model. It gives a lot of help in soil sur...

Elucidating veterinary antibiotic interactions with soil is important for assessing and mitigating possible environmental hazards. The objectives of this study were to investigate the effects of vegetative management, soil properties, and >1000 Da dissolved organic matter (DOM) on sulfamethazine (SMZ) behavior in soil. Sorption experiments were performed over a range of SMZ concentrations (2.5-...

Proper characterizations of background soil CO2 respiration rates are critical for interpreting CO2 leakage monitoring results at geologic sequestration sites. In this paper a method is developed for determining temperature-dependent critical values of soil CO2 flux for preliminary leak detection inference. The method is illustrated using surface CO2 flux measurements obtained from the AmeriFlu...

<span>Standard laboratory soil testing is deemed to be expensive and time-consuming. Utilizing a test kit considered cost-efficient time-saving way of testing. This project study aims develop prototype that detects parameters (i.e., pH, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium) gives crop fertilizer recommendations after the sample has undergone treatment its acceptability for possible users. The ...

[1] To make use of satellite microwave observations for estimating soil moisture, a dual‐pass land data assimilation system (DLDAS) is developed in this paper by incorporating a dual‐pass assimilation framework into the Community Land Model version 3 (CLM3). In the DLDAS, the model state (volumetric soil moisture content) and model parameters are jointly optimized using the gridded Advanced Mic...

a r t i c l e i n f o Land surface model parameter estimation can be performed using soil moisture information provided by synthetic aperture radar imagery. The presence of speckle necessitates aggregating backscatter measurements over large (N 100 m × 100 m) land areas in order to derive reliable soil moisture information from imagery, and a model calibrated to such aggregated information can ...

This is a preliminary study of the depth distribution of (137)Cs radionuclides in cultivated anthrosol soil of a 15-year old peach tree plantation at the experimental field "Radmilovac" near Belgrade. Before planting, the soil was ploughed at the depth of 1 m. The soil had not been annually ploughed, irrigated and treated with mineral fertilizers for three years before sampling. Activity concen...

Spatial scale of soil character is forefront in soil-scientific research, and the analysis of macropore reasonable sampling size becomes significant in studyinig on soil spatial variability. From the micro-structure of the soil, using digital image preparation and analysis technology, this paper described the soil macropore with rations, discussed the spatial structure of soil macropore on both...