October 15, 2021Smart Digital Agriculture Reading time ~14 minutes

Journal Paper Digests

Journal Paper Digests 2021 #33

Satellite Earth observation to support sustainable rural development
An overview of agriculture 4.0 development: Systematic review of descriptions, technologies, barriers, advantages, and disadvantages
How sustainable is sustainable intensification? Assessing yield gaps at field and farm level across the globe
Additive effects of organic and inorganic amendments can significantly improve structural stability of a sodic dispersive subsoil
Does biochar application alleviate soil compaction? Review and data synthesis
To standardize by mass of soil or organic carbon? A comparison of permanganate oxidizable carbon (POXC) assay methods
Spatial extrapolation of topographic models for mapping soil organic carbon using local samples
Empirical estimation of soil temperature and its controlling factors in Australia: Implication for interaction between geographic setting and air temperature

October 14, 2021Smart Digital Agriculture Reading time ~6 minutes

Classification, segmentation and correlation of zoned minerals
Leveraging observed soil heterotrophic respiration fluxes as a novel constraint on global-scale models
Important constraints on soil organic carbon formation efficiency in subtropical and tropical grasslands
Tomography in Soil Science: From the First Experiments to Modern Methods (A Review)
The unexplored role of preferential flow in soil carbon dynamics

September 21, 2021Smart Digital Agriculture Reading time ~7 minutes

A clean energy future isn’t set in stone
Numerical soil horizon classification from South Africa’s legacy database
Spatial variability-based sample size allocation for stratified sampling
Soil nutrients increase long-term soil carbon gains threefold on retired farmland
Linking decomposition rates of soil organic amendments to their chemical composition
Papatuanuku, Earth Mother: indigenous knowledge in 21st century soil management

September 11, 2021Smart Digital Agriculture Reading time ~3 minutes

Soil properties: Their prediction and feature extraction from the LUCAS spectral library using deep convolutional neural networks
Assessing new sensor-based volume measurement methods for high-throughput bulk density estimation in the field under various soil conditions

September 09, 2021Smart Digital Agriculture Reading time ~11 minutes

Pedological characteristics of artificialized soils: A snapshot
How the composition of sandstone matrices affects rates of soil formation
Field test of two background temperature correction methods of dual probe heat pulse method
Agricultural Drought Prediction Based on Conditional Distributions of Vine Copulas
Advancing Space-Time Simulation of Random Fields: From Storms to Cyclones and Beyond
Mapping potential surface ponding in agriculture using UAV-SfM
Development of a soil fertility index using on-line Vis-NIR spectroscopy
Internet of Things (IoT) for double ring infiltrometer automation
A dual-probe heat pulse-based sensor that simultaneously determines soil thermal properties, soil water content and soil water matric potential