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Books in Soil science

The Soil Science collection provides comprehensive coverage of soil chemistry, physics, microbiology, fertility, and land management. Featuring innovative research and practical applications, these resources assist soil scientists, agronomists, and researchers in promoting sustainable land use, soil health, and environmental protection. Emphasizing nutrient cycling, contamination remediation, and climate change impacts, the portfolio offers actionable insights for sustainable agriculture and ecosystem management.

  • Remote Sensing in Soil Science

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 15
    • M.A. Mulders
    • English
    This book provides comprehensive coverage of remote sensing techniques and their application in soil science. A clear, step-by-step approach to the various aspects ensures that the reader will gain a good grasp of the subject so that he can apply the techniques to his own field of study.The book opens with a thorough introduction to the physical aspects of electromagnetic radiation and the technical aspects of remote sensing and image processing. This is followed by a discussion of the methods for interpreting remote sensing data, and their application to soils, vegetation, and land as a whole.As the interpretation of soil conditions is based on many aspects (i.e. soil surface, vegetation, land use, land form), the scope of the book is correspondingly broad. It will therefore provide much useful information for students and scientists in soil science, geography, geology, hydrology, ecology, agriculture and civil engineering.
  • Elements of Soil Physics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 13
    • P. Koorevaar + 2 more
    • English
  • Introduction to Soil Physics

    • 1st Edition
    • Daniel Hillel
    • English
    This book is a unified, condensed, and simplified version of the recently issued twin volumes, Fundamentals of Soil Physics and Applications of Soil Physics. Nonessential topics and complexities have been deleted, and little prior knowledge of the subject is assumed. An effort has been made to provide an elementary, readable, and self-sustaining description of the soil's physical properties and of the manner in which these properties govern the processes taking place in the field. Consideration is given to the ways in which the soil's processes can be influenced, for better or for worse, by man. Sample problems are provided in an attempt to illustrate how the abstract principles embodied in mathematical equations can be applied in practice. The author hope that the present version will be more accessible to students than its precursors and that it might serve to arouse their interest in the vital science of soil physics.
  • Fundamentals of Soil Physics

    • 1st Edition
    • Daniel Hillel
    • English
    This book is not, in any case, in total defiance of the Wise Old Man's admonition, for it is not an entirely new book. Rather, it is an outgrowth of a previous treatise, written a decade ago, entitled "Soil and Water: Physical Principles and Processes." Though that book was well enough received at the time, the passage of the years has inevitably made it necessary to either revise and update the same book, or to supplant it with a fresh approach in the form of a new book which might incorporate still-pertient aspects of its predecessor without necessarily being limited to the older book's format or point of view.
  • Soil Organic Matter

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 8
    • M. Schnitzer + 1 more
    • English
  • Fundamentals of transport phenomena in porous media

    Based on the proceedings of the first International Symposium on the Fundamentals of Transport Phenomena in Porous Media, Technion City, Haifa, Israel, 23-28 February, 1969
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • English