CARBON BALANCE OF A GRAZED GRASSLAND IN BELGIUM JÉRÔME ELISABETH, BECKERS YVES, BODSON BERNARD, MOUREAUX CHRISTINE, AUBINET MARC 1 University of Liege, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Unit of Biosystem Physics, 8 Avenue de la Faculté, B-5030 Gembloux, Belgium 2 University of Liege, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Animal Science Unit, 2 Passage des Déportés, B5030 Gembloux, Belgium 3 University of Liege, Gemblo...

Solar surface irradiance is an important variable in many different fields, e.g., climate monitoring and solar energy. Remote sensing data are nowadays well established and the only observational data source in many regions of the world. Aerosols significantly affect the clear sky radiation and hence also the all sky radiation. In order to achieve the optimal accuracy for surface radiation, inf...

The inter-comparison of different soil moisture (SM) products over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) reveals the inconsistency among different SM products, when compared to in situ measurement. It highlights the need to constrain the model simulated SM with the in situ measured data climatology. In this study, the in situ soil moisture networks, combined with the classification of climate zones over the...

In this experience report we consider some issues in the development of a data warehouse for meteorological and climatology data at MeteoSwiss. The paper describes the meteorological and climatology data process, the data warehouse architecture developed to support this process while integrating legacy systems and some of the modelling issues encountered.

Agro-industrial wastes such as sugarcane bagasse, wheat bran, rice bran, corn cob and wheat straw are cheapest and abundantly available natural carbon sources. The present study was aimed to production of amylase and xylanase simultaneously using agro-industrial waste as the sole carbon source. Seven thermophilic strains of actinomycete were isolated from the mushroom compost. Among of these, s...

Publishing agro-environmental resources to a linked open data (LOD) cloud requires publishers to adopt a set of universally recognized linked data principles. These principles, along with semantic annotations based on shared domain ontologies can ensure the semantic integration of agro-environmental resources. In this paper we present a resource-publishing system, called AGROPub, that we develo...

lack of awareness of the critical factors involved in production of plants and sometimes, the cultivation of plants in areas unsusceptible to plant, can increase the amount of chemical fertilizer consumption in order to compensate the subsequent reduction of plant yield. this would increase environmental pollution. thus, identifying of suitable areas where could supply plants initial needs of t...

This paper poses and tests a new model of the location of plants that process ubiquitously supplied ‘von Thünen’ inputs such as raw farm output. The new model rationalizes why agro-industry is city-located but resource-oriented. It demonstrates the significance of relative transport costs in agroindustry location. Furthermore, we present a unprecedented direct test/empirical confirmation of est...