Study of soil properties like field capacity (F.C) and permanent wilting point (P.W.P) plays important roles in study of soil moisture retention curve. Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) provide an alternative by estimating soil parameters from more readily available soil data. In this study, a new approach is proposed as a modification to a standard fuzzy modeling method based on the table look-up ...

Saturated hydraulic conductivity Ksat is a fundamental characteristic in modeling flow and contaminant transport in soils and sediments. Therefore, many models have been developed to estimate Ksat from easily measureable parameters, such as textural properties, bulk density, etc. However, Ksat is not only affected by textural and structural characteristics, but also by sample dimensions e.g., i...

investigation of soil properties like cation exchange capacity (cec) plays important roles in study of environmental reaserches as the spatial and temporal variability of this property have been led to development of indirect methods in estimation of this soil characteristic. pedotransfer functions (ptfs) provide an alternative by estimating soil parameters from more readily available soil data...

Current databases of soil hydraulic properties (SHPs) have typically been used to develop pedotransfer functions (PTFs) estimate water retention [?(h)] assuming a unimodal pore-size distribution. However, natural soils often show the presence bimodal multimodal distributions. Here, we three widely spread for PTF development: UNsaturated SOil DAtabase (UNSODA) 2.0, Vereecken, and European hydrop...

The soil sorption coefficient (Kd) of glyphosate mainly controls its transport and fate in the environment. Laboratory-based analysis Kd is laborious expensive. This study aimed to test feasibility visible near-infrared spectroscopy (vis–NIRS) as an alternative method for estimation at a country scale compare accuracy against pedotransfer function (PTF). A total 439 soils with wide range values...