Geophysical Techniques for Plant, Soil, and Root Research Related to Sustainability

Bitella, Giovanni; Rossi, Roberta; Loperte, A.; Satriani, A.; Lapenna, Vincenzo; Perniola, Michele; Amato, Mariana

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16357-4_23

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“…In this respect, there is a growing demand for near-surface observing technologies (e.g. geophysical methods) to study agriculturally significant phenomena in the soil (Bitella et al, 2015). Recent studies (Cassiani et al, 2015;Consoli et al, 2017;Satriani et al, 2015) demonstrated that these techniques can improve irrigation operations by providing information regarding the optimal amounts and timing of irrigation.…”

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Use of small scale electrical resistivity tomography to identify soil-root interactions during deficit irrigation

Vanella

Cassiani

Busato

et al. 2018

Journal of Hydrology

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Plant roots affect the exchanges of mass and energy between the soil and atmosphere. However, it is challenging to monitor the activity of the root-zone because roots are not visible from the soil surface, and root systems undergo spatial and temporal variations in response to internal and external conditions. Therefore, measurements of the activity of root systems are interesting to plant biologists in general, and are especially important for specific applications, such as precision agriculture. This study demonstrates the use of small scale three-dimensional (3-D) electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) to monitor the root-zone of orange trees irrigated by two different regimes: (i) full rate, in which 100% of the crop evapotranspiration (ET c) is provided, and (ii) partial root-zone drying (PRD), in which 50% of ET c is supplied to alternate sides of the tree. We performed time-lapse 3-D ERT measurements on these trees from 5 June to 24 September 2015, and compared the long-term and short-term changes before, during, and after irrigation events. Given the small changes in soil temperature and pore water electrical conductivity, we interpreted changes of soil electrical resistivity from 3-D ERT data as proxies for changes in soil water content. The ERT results are consistent with measurements of transpiration flux and soil temperature. The changes in electrical resistivity obtained from ERT measurements in this case study indicate that *Revised Manuscript with no changes marked Click here to view linked References 2 root water uptake (RWU) processes occur at the 0.1 m scale, and highlight the impact of different irrigation schemes.

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Use of small scale electrical resistivity tomography to identify soil-root interactions during deficit irrigation

Vanella

Cassiani

Busato

et al. 2018

Journal of Hydrology

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“…27, núm. 1, e2712172 Primavera 2021 árboles adquieren y movilizan a lo largo de todo el perfil (Bitella et al, 2015;Jones, Cassidy, Thomas, Plante y Pringle, 2009;Zenone et al, 2008) y que no solo incluye el suelo, sino también el lecho de roca degradada química y físicamente (roca intemperizada), donde la rizosfera se extiende comúnmente (Dawson, Hahm y Crutchfield-Peters, 2020;Rodriguez-Robles, Arredondo, Huber-Sannwald, Ramos-Leal y Yepez, 2017).…”

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“…Los desarrollos propuestos por la geofísica han incluido métodos eléctricos y electromagnéticos, como son las tomografías de resistividad eléctrica (ERT, por sus siglas en inglés) y el radar de penetración terrestre (GPR, por sus siglas en inglés), desarrollados para el monitoreo del agua, la evaluación de la salinidad y el mapeo del levantamiento del suelo (Butnor, Doolittle, Kress, Cohen y Johnsen, 2001;Chow y Rees, 1989;Halvorson y Rhoades, 1974;Vanderborght, Huisman, van der Kruk y Vereecken, 2013). En la actualidad, las aplicaciones agrícolas y forestales de los métodos geofísicos de ERT y GPR continúan aumentando rápidamente; además, otros métodos geofísicos, como la magnetometría y sísmica, ahora están comenzando a encontrar igualmente un uso en estas disciplinas (Bitella et al, 2015;Cimpoiasu, Kuras, Pridmore y Mooney, 2020).…”

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Geofísica para la prospección agrícola y forestal: guía para interpretar imágenes del subsuelo

Rodríguez‐Robles

Moreno

2021

MYB

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La aplicación de técnicas de detección geofísica para mapear el subsuelo de campos agrícolas y forestales se ha acelerado en los últimos años. La obtención de imágenes geofísicas proporciona una alternativa o complemento a los métodos tradicionales para recopilar variables subsuperficiales a lo largo del tiempo y el espacio. Donde anteriormente el estándar era el muestreo de suelos y el análisis de laboratorio para evaluar la condición de un suelo para diversos propósitos, las técnicas de detección in situ están demostrando ser una forma muy efectiva para evaluar la variación de las propiedades del suelo / subsuelo. Este trabajo es una revisión del estado del arte relacionada con las técnicas geofísicas más aplicadas en la detección de las características y propiedades del subsuelo que influyen en la productividad y el funcionamiento de los ecosistemas forestales y sistemas agrícolas. En esta revisión se destacan las oportunidades, aplicaciones y retos que presentan las imágenes geofísicas (radargramas y tomogramas) en los campos multidisciplinarios de las biogeociencias. Las dos técnicas de investigación geofísica son muy atractivas para la comunidad científica, pues permiten mapear con precisión el subsuelo, graficar enraizamiento y monitorear contenidos de agua, identificar movimiento de sales y agroquímicos. Los agrónomos, silvicultores y la comunidad científica, podrían beneficiarse de la adopción de estas tecnologías de imágenes escalables y mínimamente invasivas para explorar el subsuelo y avanzar en nuestra investigación colectiva.

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“…Agriculture 4.0 can be considered the evolution of agriculture 20 years ago. In the first two decades of the 21 st century, the advancement of geomatics technology produced new tools and/or improved existing techniques for nearsurface geophysical surveys (and therefore applicable to agricultural soil) in a robust, cost-effective and non-invasive way (Bitella et al, 2015). This is the case of electromagnetic devices that were extensively used in precision agriculture, alone or in combination with information on the ground, to help delineate uniform management zones.…”

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Innovation in Basilicata agriculture: From tradition to digital

D’Oronzio¹,

Sica²

2021

Economia Agro-Alimentare

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The 4.0 technologies are changing agricultural production processes and with them the agro-food supply chains, fundamental for the competitiveness of the Made in Italy and Basilicata, a region of southern Italy. It has invested in modernization and restructuring of agricultural, agri-food and forestry farms by rural development policies, which address respect for sustainability and to reduction of renewable and non-renewable resources, preserving quality and the link with the territory.   Some Lucanian agricultural entrepreneurs, interested in experimenting with innovative and sustainable agriculture, has intensified relations with the local scientific world, the advisors, training institutions and with small and medium-sized agro-industrial enterprises, setting up clusters. Then European Partnerships for Innovation have formed inside them.   This paper analyses the eleven Operational Groups of the Lucanian European Partnerships which represent the incubators for the digitalization of agri-food 4.0. From the analysis it emerged that the maximum expression of digitization in Basilicata is Precision Farming, as evidenced by the establishment of a specific operating group, AgrotechBasilicata. However, the other Lucanian OGs can also be classified as digital because they are interested by information collection systems, software and data analysis, as well as robotics and automation.

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Geophysical Techniques for Plant, Soil, and Root Research Related to Sustainability

Cited by 9 publications

References 60 publications

Use of small scale electrical resistivity tomography to identify soil-root interactions during deficit irrigation

Use of small scale electrical resistivity tomography to identify soil-root interactions during deficit irrigation

Geofísica para la prospección agrícola y forestal: guía para interpretar imágenes del subsuelo

Innovation in Basilicata agriculture: From tradition to digital

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