Estimation of Soil and Crop Hydraulic Properties
Publication: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 135, Issue 5
Abstract
Some two dozen methods for estimating infiltration and roughness parameters from field measurements of test irrigations are reviewed in this paper. They differ in their assumptions, ease of analysis, quantity of field data required, and accuracy. They are divided into two broad categories, depending upon the basic approach to determine infiltration. One features direct application of mass conservation, expressed in terms of the infiltration parameters and then inverted in some way in order to extract those parameters. The other involves repeated simulation with a sequence of values of the infiltration parameters, coupled to some kind of search procedure—an optimization—to minimize differences between simulation and measurement. A new one-point technique is proposed, along with suggestions for extending existing methods.
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Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 135 • Issue 5 • October 2009
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