The effect of no-till farming on the soil functions of water purification and retention in north-western Europe: A literature review

K Skaalsveen, J Ingram, LE Clarke - Soil and Tillage Research, 2019 - Elsevier
This review provides a comprehensive evaluation of no-till (NT) based on recent studies
(post-2000) in NW Europe and evaluates the separate effect of the NT and other associated …

Site-specific seeding using multi-sensor and data fusion techniques: A review

MA Munnaf, G Haesaert, M Van Meirvenne… - Advances in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Site-specific seeding (SSS) is a precision agricultural (PA) practice aiming at optimizing
seeding rate and depth, depending on the within field variability in soil fertility and yield …

Indices for quantitative evaluation of soil quality under grassland management

MS Askari, NM Holden - Geoderma, 2014 - Elsevier
Objective The objectives of this study are to determine appropriate indicators, the most
appropriate scoring function (linear or non-linear) and integrating procedure (additive and …

Quantitative soil quality indexing of temperate arable management systems

MS Askari, NM Holden - Soil and Tillage Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Soil quality assessment can provide a practical approach for early detection of adverse
influences of management practices. Our objective was to develop soil quality indices (SQI) …

Soil physical quality response to sugarcane straw removal in Brazil: A multi-approach assessment

GA Castioni, MR Cherubin, LMS Menandro… - Soil and Tillage …, 2018 - Elsevier
Crop residues have an essential role in sustaining soil functions and the removal of
sugarcane straw for bioenergy production can exacerbate the adverse impacts of …

Quantification of soil quality under semi-arid agriculture in the northwest of Iran

SH Nehrani, MS Askari, S Saadat, MA Delavar… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Current management practices are thought to be having adverse impacts on soil quality for
semi-arid agriculture. A multidimensional quantification of soil quality was developed and …

Evaluation of soil quality for agricultural production using visible–near-infrared spectroscopy

MS Askari, SM O'Rourke, NM Holden - Geoderma, 2015 - Elsevier
Soil quality (SQ) assessment has numerous applications for agricultural management.
Conventional quantification of SQ is based on laboratory analysis and integrative indices …

Evaluation of soil structural quality using VIS–NIR spectra

MS Askari, J Cui, SM O'Rourke, NM Holden - Soil and Tillage Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Application of visible (VIS) and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy for prediction of soil
properties may offer a cost and time effective approach for evaluation of soil structural …

Assessing soil structural quality under Brazilian sugarcane expansion areas using Visual Evaluation of Soil Structure (VESS)

MR Cherubin, ALC Franco, RML Guimarães… - Soil and Tillage …, 2017 - Elsevier
Increasing global demand for biofuel has accelerated land-use change (LUC) in Brazil,
primarily through the planting of sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) to replace degraded …

Evaluation of grass quality under different soil management scenarios using remote sensing techniques

MS Askari, T McCarthy, A Magee, DJ Murphy - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Hyperspectral and multispectral imagery have been demonstrated to have a considerable
potential for near real-time monitoring and mapping of grass quality indicators. The objective …