Soil aggregate size distributions using X-ray images

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1207-1215

  Tollner, E W ^a,b   Melear, N D ^c   Rodriguez, L A ^d   Wright, M E ^a,e  

^a ASAE ^*

^b University of Georgia   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregate size; Computed tomography; Geometric mean diameter; Rotary sieve; Stereology; Tillage; X ray linescan

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CULTIVATION; SIEVES; X RAY ANALYSIS;

GEOMETRIC MEAN DIAMETER (GMD); ROTARY SIEVE ANALYSIS; STEREOLOGY;

SOILS;

AGGREGATE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL AGGREGATE; TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032124350     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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