This paper introduces derivations of soil line influences on two-band vegetation indices (VIs) and vegetation isolines in the red and near infra-red reflectance space. Soil line variations are described as changes in the soil line parameters (slope and offset) and the red reflectance of the soil surface. A general form of a VI model equation written as a ratio of two linear functions (e.g., NDV...

Drainage experiments are commonly conducted to determine soil hydraulic parameters. Experiments generally measure the temporal evolution of the cumulative outflow as well as pressure heads and water contents at several levels in the column. Then the analysts try to calibrate the model by fitting the model response to the data series. The aim of the present work is to investigate the quality of ...

Soil classification systems are very useful for a simple and fast summarization of soil properties. These systems indicate the method for data summarization and facilitate connections among researchers, engineers, and other users. One of the practical systems for soil classification is Soil Taxonomy (ST). As determining  soil classes for an  entire area is expensive, time-consuming, and almost ...

This paper highlights some important concepts in the determination of a representative variance for use in a reliability analysis. Five basic issues are addressed. The linkage to the actual engineering problem is emphasised. These are not new concepts particular to reliability analysis, but analogous to the need for representative soil parameters for making deterministic prediction for real eng...

In this paper, remote sensing measurements like apparent electrical conductivity (ECa.) are used to assess soil compaction. In an experiment comparing five tillage treatments and their effect to energy crops soil penetration resistance (SPR) was measured at the same time as ECa. ECa measurements were carried out using EM-38with dipoles at 1m apart and SPR by an electronic penetrometer. The nega...

To clarify the mechanism of radon transport from soil to surface, long term continuous measurements of radon exhalation were conducted at one site in combination with measurements of radon concentration in soil gas, soil temperature, pressure difference, soil moisture and meteorological parameters. Based on the results of measurements over a two year period, the influence of meteorological and ...

Improving the capability of land-surface process models to simulate soil moisture assists in better understanding the atmosphere-land interaction. In semi-arid regions, due to limited near-surface observational data and large errors in large-scale parameters obtained by the remote sensing method, there exist uncertainties in land surface parameters, which can cause large offsets between the sim...

In order to study passing ability of lunar rover in lunar soil, the mechanical parameters between lunar wheel and lunar soil should be analyzed. The mechanical parameters can reflect the mechanical relationship between lunar rover wheel and regolith. These parameters include sinkage, drawbar pull, driving torque, motion resistance and slip. In this paper, these parameters are measured by soil b...