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

Biogeosciences

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2477-2487

  Garcia Moreno R ^a   Diaz Alvarez M C ^b   Tarquis, A M ^b   Paz Gonzalez A ^a   Saa Requejo, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b University Politécnica of Madrid   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ACQUISITION; MICRORELIEF; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL BIOTA; SOIL STRUCTURE; SOIL SURFACE; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WATER EROSION; WIND EROSION;

EID: 77955859959     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-7-2477-2010     Document Type: Article

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