Soil Hydraulic Properties Determined by Inverse Modeling of Drip Infiltrometer Experiments Extended with Pedotransfer Functions

Determining Soil Hydraulic Properties from Tension Infiltrometer Measurements: Fuzzy Regression

numerical instability can be problems. Therefore, the nonlinear least-squares regression method introduced Tension infiltrometer measurements have been used to measure by Logsdon and Jaynes (1993) has been widely used, steady-state infiltration rates at applied tensions. The measurements owing to its simplicity. They estimated saturated hycan be used to determined soil hydraulic properties thro...

Estimating Hydraulic Conductivity Using Pedotransfer Functions

Estimating the Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity of Soil Using Gene Expression Programming Method and Comparing It with the Pedotransfer Functions

Saturated hydraulic conductivity of soil is an important physical property of soil that affects water movement in soil, Since the measurement of saturated hydraulic conductivity by direct methods in the field or in the laboratory is hard, time-consuming and costly, the indirect methods are being used.The aim of this study is to estimate the saturated hydraulic conductivity from other soil prope...

Data Assimilation with Soil Water Content Sensors and Pedotransfer Functions in Soil Water Flow Modeling

Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 76:829–844 doi:10.2136/sssaj2011.0090 Received 7 Mar. 2011. *Corresponding author ([email protected]). © Soil Science Society of America, 5585 Guilford Rd., Madison WI 53711 USA All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any informat...

Estimating Hydraulic Properties of a Fine-textured Soil Using a Disc Infiltrometer

Inverse optimization of parameters offers an economical means to infer soil hydraulic properties from in situ measurements of infiltration. We evaluated optimization strategies to inversely estimate soil hydraulic parameters using field measured tension disc infiltrometer data. We estimated the parameters n, , and Ks of the van Genuchten-Mualem (VGM) model, and a piecewise representation of con...