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Automated Measurement of the Water Drop Penetration Time for the Analysis of Soil Water Repellency

In this work, we develop an innovative system for the automated measurement of Water Drop Penetration Time (WDPT) - a parameter that is conventionally used for evaluating soil water repellency (SWR).
Wang, Danxu
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The Film-Forming Characterization and Structural Analysis of Pectin from Sunflower Heads

International Journal of Polymer Science, 2021
A natural low-methoxyl pectin (termed AHP, DM=25.9%) was extracted from dried heads of sunflower and showed better film-forming performance blended with hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC).
Xiaoxia Peng, Guang Yang, Qi Yue, Xiaomeng Ren, Yifa Zhou, Mengshan Zhang   +5 more
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Soil water repellency assessment in olive groves in Southern and Eastern Spain

, 2016
Soil water repellency (SWR) has been reported under different soils, land uses and regions of the world, particularly in forest land and after wildfires, yet the understanding of this variable in agricultural lands is still rather limited.
Burguet, María, Cerdà, Artemi, Gómez Calero, José Alfonso, Taguas, E. V.   +3 more
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Use of Clay Dispersed in Water for Decreasing Soil Water Repellency : Water Repellency Mitigation

, 2017
In this study, we examined the efficiency of a kaolinite clayey soil to mitigate water repellency of a sandy soil with olive trees. The treatment was applied to the soil zone below the tree canopy, which displayed the highest degree of water repellency ...
Ritsema, Coen, Fotios Pliakas, Vasileios Diamantis, Elsen, Erik, van den, Pliakas, Fotios, Diamantis, Vasileios, Gkiougkis, Ioannis, Pagorogon, Lorvi, Pechtelidis, Alexandros, Stefan Doerr, Lorvi Pagorogon, Erik van den Elsen, Doerr, Stefan H., Eleutheria Gazani, Stefan H. Doerr, van den Elsen, Erik, Coen J. Ritsema, Alexandros Pechtelidis, Gazani, Eleutheria, Ioannis Gkiougkis   +19 more
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Testing soil water repellency in a Sicilian area two years after a fire

Journal of Agricultural Engineering, 2019
The water drop penetration time (WDPT) technique was applied in 2018 to check persistence of soil water repellency (SWR) in a Sicilian mountain area affected by a wildfire on June 2016.
Vincenzo Bagarello, Giuseppe Basile, Gaetano Caltabellotta, Giuseppe Giordano, Massimo Iovino   +4 more
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Water repellency in eucalyptus and pine plantation forest soils and its relation to groundwater levels estimated with multi-temporal modeling

Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, 2020
Water repellency makes soils capable of resisting to the penetration of water applied on the surface and inflict various influences on groundwater.
Piyaruwan H.I.G.S., Jayasinghe P.K.S.C., Leelamanie D.A.L.   +2 more
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Do different methods for measuring the hydrophobicity of soil aggregates give the same trends in soil amended with residue?

, 2010
Most soils have a low level of water repellency and several studies have shown this to be a major property underlying soil structural stability. Various approaches have been developed to measure low levels of repellency, but selecting the one most ...
Cosentino, Diego, Chenu, C., Halett, P. D., J.C. Michel, Michel, Jean-Charles, C. Chenu, D. Cosentino, P.D. Hallett   +7 more
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INDAGINE SULL’ IDROREPELLENZA DEL SUOLO DI UNA PINETA ARTIFICIALE MEDITERRANEA

, 2016
Nell’indagine è stata caratterizzata l’idrorepellenza del suolo di una pineta artificiale Mediterranea utilizzando sia il tradizionale Water Drop Penetration Time (WDPT) test che due indici desunti da esperimenti di infiltrazione condotti con il ...
Massimo Iovino, Vincenzo Alagna, Giuseppe Giordano, Vincenzo Bagarello   +3 more
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Image Processing Techniques for Water Droplet Penetration Time and Contact Angle Estimation

Water droplet behavior on soil surfaces plays a critical role in numerous environmental processes, including soil erosion, hydrological dynamics, and ecosystem health.
Jai Kumar, Sai Balaji
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Physical and Chemical Properties of Fire-Affected Soils from the Sagebrush Ecosystem of the Western US: A Laboratory Study

Soil Systems
This study aims to understand the effects of wildfires in sagebrush ecosystem on soil properties by examining connections between Soil Water Repellency (SWR), reflectance, and chemistry.
Yasaman Raeofy, Vera Samburova, Markus Berli, Eden Furtak-Cole, Brad Sion, Sally Houseman, Kristine Lu, William Curtiss, Andrew J. Andrade, Bianca Martinez, Andrey Y. Khlystov, Hans Moosmüller   +11 more
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