September 11, 2026Smart Digital Agriculture Reading time ~8 minutes

Journal Paper Digests

Journal Paper Digests 2026 #21

An energy-based model of soil fragmentation by tillage
Stacking machine learning models to estimate soil moisture using gravimetric and in-field sensed data
Do data from the RISMA soil monitoring network support agricultural modeling requirements?
Combinatorial group testing for efficient scaling across biological applications
Putting the soil health principles to the test in Iowa
A Copula-Based Regression Method to Predict Sediment Concentration and Load in Rivers Using Streamflow Data

August 31, 2026Smart Digital Agriculture Reading time ~10 minutes

Propagation and preservation of AI-discovered problem-solving strategies in human culture
Salt effects on soil thermal conductivity: Database construction and impact quantification
Dominance of temperature over organic matter composition and mineral protection in priming effect regulation
High-resolution mapping of compressed vis-NIR spectral data of Danish topsoils
Impact over Origin: Rethinking management of introduced species in novel ecosystems
Integrating Landsat-based irrigation mapping and actual evapotranspiration estimates with hydrological modelling to assess regional irrigation dynamics in a large basin experiencing extreme climate variability: Towards a national operational irrigation water accounting system
Satellite embeddings for crop type classification: a comparative examination
Indicators of Soil Health and Degradation: Contrasting Farmer and Agricultural Advisors’ Mental Models
Land-use driven microbial community legacy shapes soil functionality

August 14, 2026Smart Digital Agriculture Reading time ~4 minutes

Microbial construction of soil structure: Modeling soil aggregation dynamics under periodic disturbances
Predicting Soil Nitrogen Mineralization Rate in Agricultural Soils Using Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (NIRS): A Laboratory Incubation Study
Soil spatial scaling: Local measurements to global policy
Spatiotemporal modelling of soil organic carbon: integrating process-based and machine learning approaches

August 06, 2026Smart Digital Agriculture Reading time ~10 minutes

Lower carbon fractions and microbial carbon use efficiency in ant-mound surface soils than in adjacent biocrusted soils of a revegetated desert
Visualizing soil chemical heterogeneity in time and space using optical sensors: advances, challenges, and prospects
A robust rank aggregation based interpretable minimum predictor set for scalable soil organic carbon mapping
Defining Soil as a Surface-Coupled Planetary System: Separating Pedogenesis From Habitability
Global Pattern of Flash Drought and Impact-Relevant Early Warning
Soil carbon stocks: Overlooked contributions from coarse fragments and subsoil across a climatic gradient
Introducing a new methodology for applying field experiments to evaluate gully evolution processes

July 29, 2026Smart Digital Agriculture Reading time ~6 minutes

Assessing Precipitation Effectiveness in the Context of Drought
From Light Scan to Flow: Estimating Soil Hydraulic Properties Through VNIR-SWIR Spectroscopy and Calibration-Free PTFs
Trends in Soil Health in the European Union
Clay content, not microbial community composition, regulates carbon stabilisation along a soil carbon and texture gradient impacted by reduced precipitation