Image processing of multiphase images obtained via X‐ray microtomography: A review

S Schlüter, A Sheppard, K Brown… - Water Resources …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Easier access to X‐ray microtomography (μCT) facilities has provided much new insight
from high‐resolution imaging for various problems in porous media research. Pore space …

Emergent properties of microbial activity in heterogeneous soil microenvironments: different research approaches are slowly converging, yet major challenges remain

PC Baveye, W Otten, A Kravchenko… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Over the last 60 years, soil microbiologists have accumulated a wealth of experimental data
showing that the bulk, macroscopic parameters (eg, granulometry, pH, soil organic matter …

Soil structure changes induced by tillage systems

LF Pires, JAR Borges, JA Rosa, M Cooper… - Soil and Tillage …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Structure represents one of the main soil physical attributes indicators. The soil
porous system (SPS) is directly linked to the soil structure. Water retention, movement, root …

Quantification of soil structure based on Minkowski functions

HJ Vogel, U Weller, S Schlüter - Computers & Geosciences, 2010 - Elsevier
The structure of soils and other geologic media is a complex three-dimensional object. Most
of the physical material properties including mechanical and hydraulic characteristics are …

Long-term effects of conventional and reduced tillage on soil structure, soil ecological and soil hydraulic properties

S Schlüter, C Großmann, J Diel, GM Wu, S Tischer… - Geoderma, 2018 - Elsevier
There is a long-lasting debate about the effects of tillage practices on soil structure and
structure-mediated ecosystem properties like hydraulic conductivity and crop productivity …

Advances in Gaussian random field generation: a review

Y Liu, J Li, S Sun, B Yu - Computational Geosciences, 2019 - Springer
Gaussian (normal) distribution is a basic continuous probability distribution in statistics, it
plays a substantial role in scientific and engineering problems that related to stochastic …

Applications of Computed Tomography (CT) in environmental soil and plant sciences

H Zhang, H He, Y Gao, A Mady, V Filipović… - Soil and Tillage …, 2023 - Elsevier
Computed tomography (CT) in combination with advanced image processing can be used to
non-invasively and non-destructively visualize complex interiors of living and non-living …

Effects of organic and inorganic fertilization on soil aggregation in an Ultisol as characterized by synchrotron based X-ray micro-computed tomography

H Zhou, X Peng, E Perfect, T **ao, G Peng - Geoderma, 2013 - Elsevier
Long-term fertilization practices generally improve soil aggregation through associated
increases in organic matter over time. However, the influence of organic versus inorganic …

[HTML][HTML] Connected pathway relative permeability from pore-scale imaging of imbibition

S Berg, M Rücker, H Ott, A Georgiadis… - Advances in Water …, 2016 - Elsevier
Pore-scale images obtained from a synchrotron-based X-ray computed micro-tomography
(µCT) imbibition experiment in sandstone rock were used to conduct Navier–Stokes flow …

Analysis of the intra-aggregate pore structures in three soil types using X-ray computed tomography

Y Zhao, X Hu, X Li - Catena, 2020 - Elsevier
The pore structure of soils can control important physical and biological processes in soil-
plant-microbial systems. However, quantifying the intra-aggregate pore structure is …