Monitoring and prediction of soil moisture spatial-temporal variations from a hydropedological perspective: A review

Soil Research

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 625-637

  Zhu, Qing ^a   Liao, Kaihua ^a   Xu, Yan ^b   Yang, Guishan ^a   Wu, Shaohua ^c   Zhou, Shenglu ^c  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

geophysics; hydropedology; soil hydrology; soil water content

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GEOPHYSICAL TOOLS; HYDROPEDOLOGY; LABOUR-INTENSIVE; LANDSCAPE FEATURE; MOISTURE SIMULATIONS; ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT; REDOX FEATURES; SOIL HYDROLOGY; SOIL MOISTURE MONITORING; SOIL SAMPLING; SOIL STRUCTURE; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIAL TEMPORALS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FORECASTING; GEOPHYSICS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; INNOVATION; LITERATURE REVIEW; MONITORING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PEDOLOGY; POROSITY; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84873387057     PISSN: 1838675X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SR12228     Document Type: Review

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