Modeling fine‐scale soil surface structure using geostatistics

H Croft, K Anderson, RE Brazier… - Water Resources …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
There is widespread recognition that spatially distributed information on soil surface
roughness (SSR) is required for hydrological and geomorphological applications. Such …

Shadow analysis of soil surface roughness compared to the chain set method and direct measurement of micro-relief

R García Moreno, MC Díaz Álvarez, AM Tarquis… - …, 2010 - bg.copernicus.org
Soil surface roughness (SSR) expresses soil susceptibility to wind and water erosion and
plays an important role in the development and the maintenance of soil biota. Several …

Fractal dimension and anisotropy of soil CO2 emission in a mechanically harvested sugarcane production area

AR Panosso, LI Perillo, AS Ferraudo, GT Pereira… - Soil and Tillage …, 2012 - Elsevier
Soil CO2 emissions (FCO2) are spatially dependent, and their spatial structure varies in
different directions along the soil surface (anisotropy). This anisotropy, which can result from …

Assessing soil surface roughness decay during simulated rainfall by multifractal analysis

E Vidal Vázquez, R García Moreno… - Nonlinear Processes …, 2008 - npg.copernicus.org
Understanding and describing the spatial characteristics of soil surface microrelief are
required for modelling overland flow and erosion. We employed the multifractal approach to …

Multiscaling analysis of soil roughness variability

RG Moreno, MCD Alvarez, AS Requejo, JLV Delfa… - Geoderma, 2010 - Elsevier
Soil surface roughness (SSR) is a parameter highly suited for the study of soil susceptibility
to wind and water erosion. The development of a methodology for quantifying SSR has …

Microtopography of bare peat: a conceptual model and objective classification from high‐resolution topographic survey data

MW Smith, J Warburton - Earth Surface Processes and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Peatlands globally are at risk of degradation through increased susceptibility to erosion as a
result of climate change. Quantification of peat erosion and an understanding of the …

Multifractal analysis of vertical profiles of soil penetration resistance at the field scale

GM Siqueira, ÊFF Silva… - Nonlinear Processes …, 2013 - npg.copernicus.org
Soil penetration resistance (PR) is widely used as an indirect indicator of soil strength. Soil
PR is linked to basic soil properties and correlated to root growth and plant production, and …

Soil roughness estimation using fractal analysis on digital images of soil surface

K Marandskiy, M Ivanovici - 2023 International Symposium on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Irregularities of soil are defined by the term soil surface roughness and various factors affect
it such as tillage operations, land management, soil texture, etc. Soil roughness impacts …

A multifractal approach to characterize cumulative rainfall and tillage effects on soil surface micro-topography and to predict depression storage

E Vidal Vázquez, JGV Miranda, J Paz-Ferreiro - Biogeosciences, 2010 - bg.copernicus.org
Most of the indices currently employed for assessing soil surface micro-topography, such as
random roughness (RR), are merely descriptors of its vertical component. Recently …

Relationship between soil surface roughness and hydraulic roughness coefficient on sloping farmland

Z Zheng, S He, F Wu - Water Science and Engineering, 2012 - Elsevier
The soil surface roughness and hydraulic roughness coefficient are important hydraulic
resistance characteristic parameters. Precisely estimating the hydraulic roughness …