Assessment and mapping of spatial variation of soil physical health in a farm

Geoderma

Volumn 160, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 292-303

  Amirinejad, Ali Ashraf ^a   Kamble, Kalpana ^a   Aggarwal, Pramila ^a   Chakraborty, Debashis ^a   Pradhan, Sanatan ^a   Mittal, Raj Bala ^a  

^a INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Physical rating index; Soil physical health; Spatial variability analysis

Indexed keywords

ARC GIS; AVAILABLE WATER; BULK DENSITY; CAPILLARY POROSITY; CROP MANAGEMENTS; CROP PRODUCTION; FIELD-SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOSTATISTICAL; GRAIN YIELD; INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUES; KRIGING; ORGANIC CARBON CONTENTS; PADDY CULTIVATION; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; PHYSICAL HEALTH; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PHYSICAL RATING; PRECISION FARMING; RATING SYSTEM; RECTANGULAR GRIDS; RICE CULTIVATION; SAMPLING POINTS; SEMIVARIOGRAMS; SOIL HEALTH; SOIL PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SPATIAL DEPENDENCE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL VARIABILITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SUBSURFACE LAYER; WHEAT FIELDS;

CROPS; CULTIVATION; FARMS; HEALTH; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTERPOLATION; ORGANIC CARBON; PLANNING; RATING; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; WATER CONTENT;

SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BULK DENSITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GIS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RICE; SOFTWARE; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL VARIATION; WHEAT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 78650744713     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2010.09.021     Document Type: Article

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