Modeling fine-scale soil surface structure using geostatistics

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1858-1870

  Croft, H ^a,b   Anderson, K ^b   Brazier, R E ^b   Kuhn, N J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

erosion; hydrology; laser; remote sensing; semivariogram; soil surface structure

Indexed keywords

EROSION; HYDROLOGY; LASERS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SILT;

ARTIFICIAL RAINFALL; DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION; SEMIVARIOGRAMS; SOIL SURFACE ROUGHNESSES (SSR); SOIL SURFACES; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EROSION RATE; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; GEOSTATISTICS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SILTY CLAY; SOIL CRACKING; SOIL CRUST; SOIL STRUCTURE; SOIL SURFACE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 84877960685     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20172     Document Type: Article

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