Proximal Soil Sensing

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Sampling for High-Resolution Soil Mapping....Pages 3-14
Development of On-the-Go Proximal Soil Sensor Systems....Pages 15-28
Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy for High-Resolution Soil Sensing....Pages 29-47
High-Resolution Digital Soil Mapping: Kriging for Very Large Datasets....Pages 49-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
The Sun Has Shone Here Antecedently....Pages 67-75
Proximal Soil Nutrient Sensing Using Electrochemical Sensors....Pages 77-88
DIGISOIL: An Integrated System of Data Collection Technologies for Mapping Soil Properties....Pages 89-101
iSOIL: An EU Project to Integrate Geophysics, Digital Soil Mapping, and Soil Science....Pages 103-110
Conditioned Latin Hypercube Sampling for Calibrating Soil Sensor Data to Soil Properties....Pages 111-119
Response Surface Sampling of Remotely Sensed Imagery for Precision Agriculture....Pages 121-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Mid- Versus Near-Infrared Spectroscopy for On-Site Analysis of Soil....Pages 133-142
Determination of Soil Nitrate and Organic Matter Content Using Portable, Filter-Based Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy....Pages 143-152
VNIR Spectroscopy Estimates of Within-Field Variability in Soil Properties....Pages 153-163
Infrared Sensors to Map Soil Carbon in Agricultural Ecosystems....Pages 165-176
Predicting Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Concentrations and Pasture Root Densities from Proximally Sensed Soil Spectral Reflectance....Pages 177-190
Diagnostic Screening of Urban Soil Contaminants Using Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy....Pages 191-199
Using Wavelets to Analyse Proximally Sensed Vis–NIR Soil Spectra....Pages 201-210
Mapping Soil Surface Mineralogy at Tick Hill, North-Western Queensland, Australia, Using Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery....Pages 211-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Combining Proximal and Penetrating Soil Electrical Conductivity Sensors for High-Resolution Digital Soil Mapping....Pages 233-243
A Neural Network Approach to Topsoil Clay Prediction Using an EMI-Based Soil Sensor....Pages 245-254
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Field Determination of Soil Moisture in the Root Zone of Deep Vertosols Using EM38 Measurements: Calibration and Application Issues....Pages 255-263
Can the EM38 Probe Detect Spatial Patterns of Subsoil Compaction?....Pages 265-273
Changes in Field Soil Water Tracked by Electrical Resistivity....Pages 275-282
Is a Systematic Two-Dimensional EMI Soil Survey Always Relevant for Vineyard Production Management? A Test on Two Pedologically Contrasting Mediterranean Vineyards....Pages 283-295
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
Full-Waveform Modelling and Inversion of Ground-Penetrating Radar Data for Non-invasive Characterisation of Soil Hydrogeophysical Properties....Pages 299-311
Using Proximal Sensors to Continuously Monitor Agricultural Soil Physical Conditions for Tillage Management....Pages 313-321
Gamma Ray Sensor for Topsoil Mapping: The Mole....Pages 323-332
Gamma Ray Sensing for Cadmium Risk Assessment in Agricultural Soil and Grain: A Case Study in Southern Sweden....Pages 333-342
Use of EM38 and Gamma Ray Spectrometry as Complementary Sensors for High-Resolution Soil Property Mapping....Pages 343-349
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
Field-Scale Draught Resistance and Soil Moisture Measurement in Australia Using a Tine-Based Force–Capacitance Sensing System....Pages 353-362
Sensor-Based Mapping of Soil Quality on Degraded Claypan Landscapes of the Central United States....Pages 363-373
Proximal Sensing Methods for Mapping Soil Water Status in an Irrigated Maize Field....Pages 375-385
Comparing the Ability of Multiple Soil Sensors to Predict Soil Properties in a Scottish Potato Production System....Pages 387-396
Spatial Variability and Pattern of Selected Properties of Agricultural Soils in the Czech Republic Measured by Indirect Proximal and Remote Sensing....Pages 397-409
Front Matter....Pages 411-411
Inverse Meta-modelling of Yield-Monitor Data for Estimating Soil-Available Water-Holding Capacities at a Farm Resolution of 10 m....Pages 413-421
Reconstructing Palaeotopography at the Beginning of the Weichselian Glacial Stage Using an Electromagnetic Induction Sensor....Pages 423-434
Back Matter....Pages 435-446