Spatial complexity of soil plow layer penetrometer resistance as influenced by sugarcane harvesting: A prefractal approach

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 77-86

  Pérez, Luís D ^a   Millán, Humberto ^a   González Posada, Mario ^a  

^a University of Granma   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Prefractal analysis; Soil compaction; Sugarcane

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; GEO-STATISTICS; GEOSTATISTICAL MODELS; PARTICULAR DISTRIBUTION; PENETROMETER RESISTANCE; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PLOW LAYERS; POWER-LAW; PREFRACTAL ANALYSIS; SCALING EXPONENT; SEMIVARIOGRAMS; SHOOT EMERGENCE; SOIL COMPACTION; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL RESISTANCE; SPATIAL COMPLEXITY; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; THIRD-WORLD COUNTRIES; VERTISOLS;

COMPACTION; CROPS; HARVESTING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

COMPACTION; CROP PRODUCTION; EMERGENCE; GEOSTATISTICS; HARVESTING; PENETROMETER; PLOWING; SOIL DEPTH; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUGAR CANE; VARIOGRAM; VERTISOL;

EID: 77956182674     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2010.06.011     Document Type: Article

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