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Approximate self-affine model for cultivated soil roughness

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  • Yordanov, O.I.
  • Guissard, A.

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We consider laser profiler measured soil profiles and show that the roughness of the cultivated soil can be viewed as an approximately self-affine structure. This conclusion is drawn from the limited range scaling behaviour found in both the variance and the second-order structure function of the profiles. We then propose and test a model for the radial part of the roughness spectra the explicitly incorporates the approximate self-affinity. A comparison of the model with data renders the values of the roughening exponent, the pertinent statistical parameters, the topothesy and the large-scale correlation length. Some technical details of the statistical analysis used to ascertain the model are also discussed.

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  • Yordanov, O.I. & Guissard, A., 1997. "Approximate self-affine model for cultivated soil roughness," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 238(1), pages 49-65.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:238:y:1997:i:1:p:49-65
    DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(96)00453-0
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    1. Manninen, A.T., 2003. "Multiscale surface roughness description for scattering modelling of bare soil," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 319(C), pages 535-551.

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