Comparing the use of the traditional and repeated-sampling-approach of the 137Cs technique in soil erosion estimation

Geoderma

Volumn 160, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 324-335

  Li, Sheng ^a   Lobb, David A ^a   Kachanoski, R Gary ^b   McConkey, Brian G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c SWIFT CURRENT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

137Cs; Corn production; Erosion; Hay pasture; Landscape segmentation; Repeated sampling

Indexed keywords

137CS; CORN PRODUCTION; HAY PASTURE; LANDSCAPE SEGMENTATION; REPEATED-SAMPLING;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; CESIUM; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); LANDFORMS; RANDOM ERRORS; SOILS;

EROSION;

CESIUM ISOTOPE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EROSION RATE; HAY; MAIZE; PASTURE; SAMPLING; SEGMENTATION; SOIL EROSION; TILLAGE; TOPOGRAPHY; WIND EROSION;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 78650719228     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2010.09.029     Document Type: Article

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