Impact of soil surface characteristics on soil water content variability in agricultural fields

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 4340-4351

  Manns, Hida R ^a   Berg, Aaron A ^a   Bullock, Paul R ^b   Mcnairn, Heather ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Remote sensing; Soil texture; Soil water content variability; Surface residue; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; AGRICULTURE; LINEAR REGRESSION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; SOIL TEXTURES; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SURFACE RESIDUES; SURFACE SOIL PROPERTIES; TEXTURAL CLASSIFICATION;

TEXTURES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CROP RESIDUE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL SURFACE; SOIL TEXTURE; SOIL WATER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WATER CONTENT;

CANADA; MANITOBA;

EID: 84903748042     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10216     Document Type: Article

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