July 28, 2026Smart Digital Agriculture Reading time ~8 minutes

Journal Paper Digests

Journal Paper Digests 2026 #16

‘A flash in the pan’ or a more enduring contribution? A retrospective on Micha Klein’s (1976) ‘Hydrograph peakedness and basin area’
High resolution 4D soil organic carbon stock mapping at farm scale
How the landscape influences soil respiration: Explaining spatio-temporal patterns with interpretable machine learning
Capturing Field-Scale Soil Moisture Dynamics in Ireland Using Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensing
Combined Effect of Biochar and Microplastics on Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Meta-Analysis
A Simple Stomatal Model That Unifies the Metabolic and Hydraulic Control of Carbon and Water Flux

July 03, 2026Smart Digital Agriculture Reading time ~12 minutes

NASA’s EMIT hyperspectral observations of phytoplankton ecology in estuarine waters
Bayesian uncertainty analysis of soil organic carbon stocks and stock changes from croplands in the U.S. Midwest
The role of soil structure for the response of CO2 emissions to soil moisture and its relevance for modelling soil carbon dynamics
SMART-Soil: Satellite-based machine learning approach for reliable tracking of soil moisture across CONUS
Coupling near infrared spectroscopy with machine learning algorithms for simultaneously detecting multiple microplastics in soil
Causal Discovery Methods for Functional Performance of Evapotranspiration Models
An independent evaluation of global 1 km soil moisture products using in-situ and airborne observations
Interpolation of large-scale airborne geophysical data with uncertainty quantification

June 22, 2026Smart Digital Agriculture Reading time ~7 minutes

Integrating soil health and manure practices to advance sustainability for US dairy farms
A function-semantic oriented heterogeneous graph aggregation framework with weighted spatial relationships for urban functional zone mapping
Linking Soil Threats and Mitigating Management Practices
Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy to Estimate Ratios of Soil Organic Carbon to Clay
Challenges in reliable bias correction of hydro-climatic and energy data: Towards a reconstruction of datasets

June 15, 2026Smart Digital Agriculture Reading time ~10 minutes

Chemical structure of soil organic carbon governs formation, stability, and carbon accumulation of soil aggregates under contrasting land uses
Observation-Constrained Agroecosystem Model Inversion Reveals Continental-Scale Variation of Winter Wheat Traits
The potential of poetry for enchanting and communicating geomorphology
A density-based boundary line analysis framework using accessible spatial datasets to identify within-field limitations to crop production
Depth-resolved mapping of soil temperature in Australia using mechanistic and machine-learning approaches
Kriging prior regression: A case for kriging-based spatial features with TabPFN in soil mapping
Zero-shot inference with Tabular Prior-data Fitted Network (TabPFN) for soil MIR spectral analysis

May 27, 2026Smart Digital Agriculture Reading time ~7 minutes

Integrating Maximum Entropy Production Theory and Machine Learning to Improve Global Evapotranspiration Modeling
A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Soil Structural Attributes Across Contrasting Land-Use Types
From Soil Threats to Soil Health: Prevention or Remediation
Continental-Scale Evidence of Farm Management Impacts on Soil Carbon
Hardsetting in sandy soils: a review Open Access