The Mangrove Swamp Rice Production System of Guinea Bissau: Identification of the Main Constraints Associated with Soil Salinity and Rainfall Variability

G Garbanzo, MR Cameira, P Paredes - Agronomy, 2024 - mdpi.com
Mangrove swamp rice production (MSRP) refers to rice cultivation in former mangrove soils
that have been anthropogenically modified for food production. The method utilizes the …

Hydro-pedotransfer functions: a roadmap for future development

TKD Weber, L Weihermüller, A Nemes… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2024 - hess.copernicus.org
Hydro-pedotransfer functions (PTFs) relate easy-to-measure and readily available soil
information to soil hydraulic properties (SHPs) for applications in a wide range of process …

Smart farm irrigation: Model predictive control for economic optimal irrigation in agriculture

G Cáceres, P Millán, M Pereira, D Lozano - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
The growth of the global population, together with climate change and water scarcity, has
made the shift towards efficient and sustainable agriculture increasingly important …

[HTML][HTML] BIS-4D: mapping soil properties and their uncertainties at 25 m resolution in the Netherlands

A Helfenstein, VL Mulder… - Earth System …, 2024 - essd.copernicus.org
In response to the growing societal awareness of the critical role of healthy soils, there has
been an increasing demand for accurate and high-resolution soil information to inform …

[HTML][HTML] Plant available water predicted by a flux-based approach

MLA de Melo, L Inforsato, EAR Pinheiro, QJ van Lier - Geoderma, 2023 - Elsevier
Plant available water (PAW) is an important indicator of soil suitability for crop growth and
biomass production. Total available water (TAW) is defined as the difference between the …

[HTML][HTML] Coupling field monitoring with crop growth modelling provides detailed insights on yield gaps at field level: A case study on ware potato production in the …

APP Ravensbergen, MK van Ittersum, C Kempenaar… - Field Crops …, 2024 - Elsevier
Context Yield gap analyses are useful to assess and benchmark the productivity of cropping
systems. Often such analyses are performed at higher aggregation levels. As a result, these …

Human-induced changes in Indonesian peatlands increase drought severity

M Taufik, B Minasny, AB McBratney… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Indonesian peatlands are critical to the global carbon cycle, but they also support a large
number of local economies. Intense forest clearing and draining in these peatlands is …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of evaporation induced cracks and precipitation on temporal slope stability

E Jamalinia, PJ Vardon, SC Steele-Dunne - Computers and Geotechnics, 2020 - Elsevier
The stability of a dike is influenced strongly by its water content, via both changing its weight
and strength. While safety calculations using both analytical and numerical methods are well …

In-situ estimation of soil hydraulic and hydrodispersive properties by inversion of Electromagnetic Induction measurements and soil hydrological modeling

G Dragonetti, M Farzamian, A Coppola… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2022 - hess.copernicus.org
Determining soil hydraulic and hydrodispersive properties is crucial for the sustainable
management of water resources and agricultural land. Due to the local heterogeneity of soil …

Dynamic modeling of crop–soil systems to design monitoring and automatic irrigation processes: A review with worked examples

J Lopez-Jimenez, A Vande Wouwer, N Quijano - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
The smart use of water is a key factor in increasing food production. Over the years, irrigation
has relied on historical data and traditional management policies. Control techniques have …