Soil moisture: coauthor of the soil mosaic patterns

0560293 - ÚH 2023 RIV DE eng A - Abstract
Kocum, Jiří - Šefrna, L. - Vlček, Lukáš
Soil moisture: coauthor of the soil mosaic patterns.
EGU General Assembly 2022. Göttingen: European Geosciences Union, 2022, č. článku EGU22-12486..
[EGU General Assembly 2022. 23.05.2022-27.05.2022, Vienna / Online]
Institutional support: RVO:67985874
Keywords : soil mosaic * soil classification * fractal dimension * Minkowski-Bouligad method
OECD category: Physical geography
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-12486

This study deals with soil mosaics visible from aerial photographs on agricultural lands which are not captured in the Complex Soil Survey (CSS) maps from the 1970s. Fifty localities in Czechia were chosen to study these mosaics. Attention is paid to the development, places of occurrence and the shape of the mosaic. Here we propose a classification of different soil mosaics created by using freely available data. The classification consists of three groups which furthermore contains categories defined by the main causes. Not all sites are formed only by one category. The mosaic is often composed of several categories, and the resulting shape is the sum of many processes. The relationship between shape and the development was analysed by the fractal dimension analysis using the Minkowski-Boulingad method. This approach did not bring sufficient results and the relationship could not be proved.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0333276