This paper presents a method for the estimation of the soil heat flux that was used to determine the evapotranspiration in ecosystems. The great advantage of this approach is that there is the possibility to use this method for both daytime and nighttime as well as that the parameters are adaptively recalculated depending on three soil temperatures. It enables the estimation in situ of the soil...

influence of soil organic matter (som) on the adsorption, desorption and transport of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (pahs) has already been given full investigation in soils. in this paper, confocal laser scanning microscope (clsm) was used to elucidate aqueous leaching of pahs in different types of soil with soil columns, which enhanced understanding on transport of pahs appreciably. four t...

Bimodal soils with aggregates present a complex micro-structural and volumetric behaviour. This occurs because they showcase several variables, such as mineralogical, different grain sizes structures. The objective of this paper is to develop methodology for producing simple, non-mineralogical variability controlled double porosity. In sense, using Kaolin were created obtain bimodal samples. pr...

Soil degradation implies a decline in the capacity of the soil to perform environmental regulatory functions and yield agricultural goods. Soils are affected by regressive and/or degradative evolution processes as a result of natural causes as well as anthropogenic influences in semi-arid regions such as Central Spain. The main aim of this work is to evaluate the capacity of hyperspectral HyMap...

BACKGROUND Our daily activities imply displacements on various types of soil. For persons with gait disorder or losing functional autonomy, walking on some types of soil could be challenging because of the risk of falling it represents. METHODS In this paper, we present, in a first part, the use of an enactive shoe for an automatic differentiation of several types of soil. In a second part, u...