January 17, 2024Smart Digital Agriculture Reading time ~6 minutes

Journal Paper Digests

Journal Paper Digests 2024 #2

Physics-Informed Neural Networks for solving transient unconfined groundwater flow
Towards a cost-effective framework for estimating soil nitrogen pools using pedotransfer functions and machine learning
An interlaboratory comparison of mid-infrared spectra acquisition: Instruments and procedures matter
Estimating soil organic carbon content at variable moisture contents using a low-cost spectrometer

January 12, 2024Smart Digital Agriculture Reading time ~10 minutes

Temporal Gap-Filling of 12-Hourly SMAP Soil Moisture Over the CONUS Using Water Balance Budgeting
Carbon sequestration in soils and climate change mitigation—Definitions and pitfalls
Pyrogeography in flux: Reorganization of Australian fire regimes in a hotter world
Distinct, direct and climate-mediated environmental controls on global particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon storage
Stabilisation of soil organic matter with rock dust partially counteracted by plants
A technical evaluation on the mathematical attitudes and fitting accuracy of soil moisture retention curve models
Glacial rock flour reduces the hydrophobicity of Greenlandic cultivated soils
Determination of soil water retention curves from thermal conductivity curves, texture, bulk density, and field capacity
Incorporating soil knowledge into machine-learning prediction of soil properties from soil spectra

December 18, 2023Smart Digital Agriculture Reading time ~8 minutes

Physics-Informed Neural Networks for solving transient unconfined groundwater flow
A copula-based parametric composite drought index for drought monitoring and applicability in arid Central Asia
Visible and near infrared spectroscopy for predicting soil nitrogen mineralization rate: Effect of incubation period and ancillary soil properties
Real-Time Irrigation Scheduling Based on Weather Forecasts, Field Observations, and Human-Machine Interactions
A Complete Water Balance of a Rain Garden
Agricultural value chains and food security in the Pacific: Evidence from Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands

December 08, 2023Smart Digital Agriculture Reading time ~12 minutes

Equalizing urban agriculture access in Glasgow: A spatial optimization approach
Reproducing computational processes in service-based geo-simulation experiments
Prediction of soil organic matter by Kubelka-Munk based airborne hyperspectral moisture removal model
Cropping intensity map of China with 10 m spatial resolution from analyses of time-series Landsat-7/8 and Sentinel-2 images
Diffuse reflectance mid-infrared spectroscopy is viable without fine milling
Optimising POXC effective sensitivity as a soil indicator in Australian soils
A Blue Water Scarcity-Based Method for Hydrologically Sustainable Agricultural Expansion Design
A global indicator of soil macroinvertebrate community composition, abundance and diversity
Fifty years after deep-ploughing: Effects on yield, roots, nutrient stocks and soil structure

November 27, 2023Smart Digital Agriculture Reading time ~16 minutes

Long-term ecological research in freshwaters enabled by regional biodiversity collections, stable isotope analysis, and environmental informatics Get access Arrow
Do carbon farming practices build bioavailable nitrogen pools?
Combining ground penetrating radar methodologies enables large-scale mapping of soil horizon thickness and bulk density in boreal forests
The appraisal of pedotransfer functions with legacy data; an example from southern Africa
Interactions among soil texture, pore structure, and labile carbon influence soil carbon gains
A framework for recalibrating pedotransfer functions using nonlinear least squares and estimating uncertainty using quantile regression
Soil total suction sensing using fiber-optic technology
Can we use X-ray CT to generate 3D penetration resistance data?
Estimating plant-available nutrients with XRF sensors: Towards a versatile analysis tool for soil condition assessment
Beyond PLFA: Concurrent extraction of neutral and glycolipid fatty acids provides new insights into soil microbial communities