Soil parameters assessment by remote sensing

Abstract

In this paper, remote sensing measurements like apparent electrical conductivity (ECa.) are used to assess soil compaction. In an experiment comparing five tillage treatments and their effect to energy crops soil penetration resistance (SPR) was measured at the same time as ECa. ECa measurements were carried out using EM-38with dipoles at 1m apart and SPR by an electronic penetrometer. The negative correlation between the two parameters for all measurements resulted in R2= 0.73. Taking the measurements for each treatment in conventional tillage plots R2 = 0.53, chisel plough tillage 0.61, rotary tiller 0.69, disk harrow 0.55, strip-till 0.35 and no till 0.81. Copyright © 2015 for the individual papers by the papers' authors.