Full Description
The importance to preserve soil and water have is increasingly recognized. Agricultural practices and ecological trends both affect and are affected by soil physical properties. The more frequency of natural disasters, as landslides and thunderstorms addresses the importance to integrate soil characteristics in predictive models. Soil physics research has grown considerably specially in the use of innovative sensors, soil databases, and modeling techniques have been introduced into soil water relationship and environmental monitoring. Those advances are thoroughly dispersed in articles and conference proceedings In this volume, the authors will bring together the effectiveness of many new field and lab sensors and examine the current state-of-the-art in modeling and data analysis. It also includes innovative approaches and case studies in tropical soils. Future directions in soil physics research are given by key researchers in this discipline.
Contents
Part 1 - Integrating data in soil physics.- Knowledge chains, linking cutting-edge research on flow phenomena in soils with tacit knowledge from field research.- Part 2 - Data analysis in soil physics and pedotransfers functions.- State-Space Analysis in Soil Physics.- Spatial relationships between soil water content and hydraulic conductivity in a highly structured clay soils.- State-space approach to understand Soil-Plant-Atmosphere relationships.- Pedotransfer functions for Brazilian soils.- Part 3 - Different approaches for the characterization of soil physical quality indicators.- An Algorithm for Mapping the Spatial Variability of Soil Physical Quality.- A Preliminary Proposal for the Structural Classification Of Soil Pore Space.- Indicators of soil physical quality: from simplicity to complexity.- Monitoring soil water in irrigated soils of the Brazilian semi-arid region: an opportunity to improve water use.- Sensor Network Data Assimilation in Soil Water Flow Modeling.- NewPerspectives for the Application of High-Resolution Benchtop X-Ray MicroCT for Quantifying Void, Solid and Liquid Phases in Soils.- Unsaturated soil hydraulic conductivity in the Central Amazon: field evaluations.- Soil Moisture and Soil Water Storage using Hydrological Modeling and Remote Sensing.- Part 5 - Creating databases and models applied to soil physics.- The Use of Numerical Flow and Transport Models in Environmental Analyses.- The Use of Multicomponent Solute Transport Models in Environmental Analyses.- Water availability to plants.- Experiences and challenges in developing European Soil hydrological Databases.- A Hydrophysical Database to develop Pedotransfer Functions for Brazilian Soils: Challenges and Perspectives.
