Development of technique to determine soil quality index for assessing soil condition

Development of an Index-based Regression Model for Soil Moisture Estimation Using MODIS Imageries by Considering Soil Texture Effects

Soil moisture content (SMC) is one of the most significant variables in drought assessment and climate change. Near-real time and accurate monitoring of this quantity by means of remote sensing (RS) is a useful strategy at regional scales. So far, various methods for the SMC estimation using a RS data have been developed. The use of spectral information based on a small range of electromagnetic...

Assessing Soil Quality in Organic Agriculture

Evaporation experiment to determine soil hydraulic properties

Novel evaporation experiment to determine soil hydraulic properties K. Schneider, O. Ippisch, and K. Roth Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Received: 24 April 2006 – Accepted: 27 April 2006 – Published: 29 June 2006 Correspondence to: K. Schneider (kla...

Soil biodiversity and soil community composition determine ecosystem multifunctionality.

Biodiversity loss has become a global concern as evidence accumulates that it will negatively affect ecosystem services on which society depends. So far, most studies have focused on the ecological consequences of above-ground biodiversity loss; yet a large part of Earth's biodiversity is literally hidden below ground. Whether reductions of biodiversity in soil communities below ground have con...

Assessing Relation of Soil Hydrophobicity and Soil Water Content and Determining Threshold Moisture of Organic Soil Samples

Soil water content is the most effective factor associated with the hydrophobic and hydrophilic changes in a soil. Water repellency in soils, is not a permanent feature; it can be reached in the dry season and reduced or eliminated in the wet season It can be said that in terms of moisture, there is a critical region that is defined as the threshold moisture content, where in lower moisture, th...