Innovative biosystems engineering for sustainable agriculture, forestry and food production : International Mid-Term Conference 2019 of the Italian Association of Agricultural Engineering (AIIA) /: International Mid-Term Conference 2019 of the Italian Association of Agricultural Engineering (AIIA). (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Antonio Coppola, Giovanni Carlo Di Renzo, Giuseppe Altieri, Paola D'Antonio (eds.).
• Other Names: Coppola, Antonio; Di Renzo, Giovanni Carlo; Altieri, Giuseppe; D'Antonio, Paola; Associazione italiana di ingegneria agraria., International Midterm Conference, (2019)
• Contents: Intro -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Italian Association of Agricultural Engineering (AIIA) -- The Context -- The Vision in the Twenty-First Century -- Agriculture and Environment: New Challenges for Engineers -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Contents -- Land and Water Use -- A Comprehensive Check of Usle-Based Soil Loss Prediction Models at the Sparacia (South Italy) Site -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and Methods -- 3 Results and Discussion -- 4 Conclusions -- References Evaluating the Effects of Forest Cover Changes on Sediment Connectivity in a Catchment Affected by Multiple Wildfires -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Study Area -- 3 Materials and Methods -- 3.1 Fire Severity -- 3.2 Index of Connectivity -- 4 Results and Discussion -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- A Check of Water Drop Impact Effects on Surface Soil Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and Methods -- 3 Results -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- On the Description of Soil Variability Through EMI Sensors and Traditional Soil Surveys in Precision Agriculture -- 1 Introduction 2 Materials and Methods -- 2.1 Study Area -- 2.2 Traditional Soil Survey and Soil Map -- 2.3 EMI Survey and MZ Map -- 3 Results -- 3.1 Traditional Soil Survey and Soil Map -- 3.2 EMI Survey and MZ Map -- 3.3 Comparison Between Soil Map and MZ Map -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Drought Variability and Trend Over the Lombardy Plain from Meteorological Station Records -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data and Methods -- 3 Results and Discussion -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Biodegradable Geosynthetics for Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Engineering -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and Methods 2.1 Selection of Biopolymer -- 2.2 Physical, Mechanical and Chemical Characterization of Biopolymer -- 2.3 Prototype Samples Building and Testing -- 3 Results -- 3.1 Chemical and Mechanical Characterization of Biopolymers -- 3.2 Prototype Samples Building and Testing -- 4 Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Comparison of Different Methods for Topographic Survey of Rural Canals -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Area Test and Data Capture -- 3 Results and Discussion -- 4 Conclusions -- References Hydraulic Modeling of Field Experiments in a Drainage Channel Under Different Riparian Vegetation Scenarios -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and Methods -- 2.1 Field Experiments -- 2.2 Hydraulic Model -- 3 Results and Discussions -- 3.1 Real-Scale Experiments -- 3.2 Hydraulic Model Results -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Groundwater Recharge Through Winter Flooding of Rice Areas -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and Methods -- 2.1 Study Area -- 2.2 Irrigation Management -- 2.3 Surface Water Inflow, Outflow and Groundwater Levels -- 2.4 Semi-distributed Conceptual Model: Set up and Calibration
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (860 pages)
• Subjects: 630; Agricultural engineering -- Congresses; Agricultural engineering; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030392994; 3030392996
• Related ISBNs: 9783030392987
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