Use of surface soil moisture to estimate profile water storage by polynomial regression and artificial neural networks

Water storage in the soil profile is an important agronomic variable but its measuring is rather difficult for farmers in production fields. We tested the possibility of using samples from the upper soil layers, which are usually taken for soil fertility evaluation, for whole profile water storage e...

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Autor principal: Bono, Angel Alfredo
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