Image processing-based study of soil porosity and its effect on water movement through Andosol intact columns

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1377-1386

  Prado, B ^a,d   Duwig, C ^b   Marquez J ^a   Delmas, P ^c   Morales, P ^a   James, J ^c   Etchevers, J ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d The University of Auckland ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

Displacement experiment; Image analysis; Macroporosity

Indexed keywords

ANDOSOL; ANDOSOLS; CHARACTERISATION; DISPLACEMENT EXPERIMENT; DRINKING WATER; IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; MACROPOROSITY; MACROPOROUS; MEXICO CITY; NON EQUILIBRIUM; NOVEL METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PORE CHARACTERISTICS; PORE CONNECTIVITY; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; SOIL COLUMN; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL PLOUGHING; SOIL PORES; SOIL POROSITY; SOIL PROFILES; SOIL SAMPLE; SOIL STRUCTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THIN SECTION; TUBULAR PORES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER TRACERS; WATER TRANSPORT; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDFORMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POROSITY; POTABLE WATER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SURFACE WATERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATERSHEDS;

SOILS;

ANDOSOL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PLOWING; POROSITY; SOIL COLUMN; SOIL STRUCTURE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; WATER FLOW; WATERSHED;

MEXICO [MEXICO (NTN)]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; VALLE DE BRAVO;

EID: 67650033230     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2009.04.012     Document Type: Article

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