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PhD Thesis

Efficient Methods for Predicting Soil Hydraulic Properties

Papers in refereed journals

1.      Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., 1999. A rudimentary mechanistic model for soil production and landscape development. Geoderma 90, 3-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7061(98)00115-3

2.      Field, D.J., Minasny, B., 1999. A description of aggregate liberation and dispersion in A horizons of Australian Vertisols by ultrasonic agitation. Geoderma 91, 11-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7061(98)00142-6

3.      Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., Bristow, K.L., 1999. Comparison of different approaches to the development of pedotransfer functions for water retention curves. Geoderma 93, 225-253.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7061(99)00061-0

4.      Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., 2000. Hydraulic conductivity pedotransfer functions for Australian soil. Australian Journal of Soil Research 38, 905-926.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SR99110

5.      Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., 2000. Estimation of sorptivity from disc-permeameter measurements. Geoderma 95, 305-324. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7061(99)00096-8

6.      Walter, C., A. B. McBratney, Douaoui, A., Minasny, B., 2001. Spatial prediction of topsoil salinity in the Chelif valley, Algeria using kriging with local versus whole-area variograms. Australian Journal of Soil Research 39, 255-272.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SR99114

7.      Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., 2001. A rudimentary mechanistic model for soil production and landscape development II; A two-dimensional model incorporating chemical weathering. Geoderma 103, 161-179. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7061(01)00075-1

8.      Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., 2001. The Australian soil texture boomerang: a comparison of the Australian and USDA/FAO soil particle-size classification systems. Australian Journal of Soil Research 39, 1443-1451. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SR00065

9.      Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., 2002. The neuro-m method for fitting neural network parametric pedotransfer functions. Soil Science Society of America Journal 66, 352-361. [Abstract]

10.   Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., 2002. Uncertainty analysis for pedotransfer functions. European Journal of Soil Science 53, 417-430. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2389.2002.00452.x

11.  Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., 2002. The efficiency of various approaches to obtaining estimates of soil hydraulic properties. Geoderma 107, 55-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7061(01)00138-0

12.  McBratney, A.B., Minasny, B., Cattle, S.R., Vervoort, R.W., 2002. From pedotransfer functions to soil inference systems. Geoderma 109, 41-73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7061(02)00139-8

13.  Cattle, J.A., McBratney, A.B., Minasny, B., 2002. Kriging method evaluation for assessing the spatial distribution of urban soil lead contamination. Journal of Environmental Quality 31, 1576-1588.

14.  Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., 2003. Integral energy as a measure of soil-water availability. Plant and Soil 249, 253-262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1022825732324

15.  Triantafilis, J., Odeh, I.O.A., Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., 2003. Elucidation of hydrogeological units using fuzzy k-means classification of EM34 data in the lower Namoi valley, Australia. Environmental Modelling and Software 18, 667-680. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1364-8152(03)00053-7

16.  McBratney, A.B., Mendonça-Santos, M.L., Minasny, B., 2003. On digital soil mapping. Geoderma 117, 3-52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7061(03)00223-4

17.  Vervoort, R.W., Cattle, S.R., Minasny, B., 2003. The hydrology of Vertosols used for cotton production: I. Hydraulic, structural and fundamental soil properties. Australian Journal of Soil Research 41, 1255-1272  http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SR02154

18.  Minasny, B., Hopmans, J.W., Harter, T., Eching, S.O., Tuli, A., Denton, M., 2004. Neural networks prediction of soil hydraulic functions from multi-step outflow data. Soil Science Society of America Journal 68, 417-429.

19.  Minasny, B., Field, D.J., 2005. Estimating soil hydraulic properties and their uncertainty:- the use of stochastic simulation in the inverse modelling of the evaporation method. Geoderma 126, 277-290. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2004.09.015

20.  Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., 2005. Letter to the Editor on “Simultaneous measurement of soil penetration resistance and water content with a combined penetrometer–TDR moisture probe” and “A dynamic cone penetrometer for measuring soil penetration resistance”. Soil Science Society of America Journal 69, 925-926.

21.   Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., 2005. The Matérn function as a general model for the soil variogram. Geoderma 128, 192-207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2005.04.003

22.  Bishop, T.F.A., Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., 2006. Uncertainty analysis for soil-terrain models. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 20, 117-134.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13658810500287073

23.  Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., Mendonça-Santos, M.L., Odeh, I.O.A., Guyon, B., 2006. Prediction and digital mapping of soil carbon storage in the Lower Namoi Valley. Australian Journal of Soil Research 44, 233-244. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SR05136

24.  Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., 2006. Mechanistic soil-landscape modelling as an approach to developing pedogenetic classifications. Geoderma 133, 138-149. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2006.03.042

25.  Follain, S., Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., Walter, C. 2006. Simulation of soil thickness evolution in a complex agricultural landscape at fine spatial and temporal scales. Geoderma 133, 71-86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2006.03.038

26.  Viscarra Rossel, R., Minasny B., McBratney, A.B., Roudier, P. 2006. Colour space models for soil science. Geoderma 133, 320-337.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2005.07.017

27.  Field, DJ. Minasny, B., Gaggin, M., 2006. Modelling aggregate liberation and dispersion of three differing soil types exposed to ultrasonic agitation. Australian Journal of Soil Research 44, 497-502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SR05127  

28.  Vervoort, R.W., Minasny B., Cattle, S.R., 2006. The hydrology of Vertosols used for cotton production: II. Pedotransfer functions to predict hydraulic properties. Australian Journal of Soil Research 44, 479-486. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SR05152

29.  Taylor, J., Minasny, B., 2006. A protocol for converting qualitative point soil pit survey data into continuous soil property maps. Australian Journal of Soil Research 44, 543-550. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SR06060

30.  Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., 2006. A conditioned Latin hypercube method for sampling in the presence of ancillary information. Computers & Geosciences 32, 1378-1388. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2005.12.009

31. McBratney, A.B., Minasny, B., Viscarra Rossel, R. 2006. Spectral soil analysis and inference systems: a powerful combination for solving the soil data crisis. Geoderma 136, 272-278.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2006.03.051

32.      Omuto, T.C., Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., Biamah, E.K., 2006. Nonlinear mixed effect modelling for improved estimation of water retention and infiltration parameters. Journal of Hydrology 330, 748-758. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.05.006

 33.      Pringle, M.J., Romano, N., Lark, R.M., Minasny, B., Chirico, G.B. Spatial Evaluation of Pedotransfer Functions using Wavelet Analysis. Journal of Hydrology333, 182-198. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.08.007

34. Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., Walvoort, D.J.J. 2006. The variance quadtree algorithm: use for spatial sampling design. Computers & Geosciences 33, 383-392. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2006.08.009

35. Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., 2007. Spatial prediction of soil properties using EBLUP with a Matérn covariance function. Geoderma Special Issue Pedometrics (Online) doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2007.04.028 

Corrigendum

36. Carré, F., McBratney, A.B., Minasny, B., 2007. Estimation and potential improvement of the quality of legacy soil samples for digital soil mapping. Geoderma (Online) doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2007.01.018

37. Minasny, B, McBratney, A.B., 2007. Estimating the water retention shape parameter from sand and clay content. Soil Science Society of America Journal 71, 53-55. Links to data. doi:10.2136/sssaj2006.0298N

38. McBratney, A.B., Minasny, B, 2007. On measuring pedodiversity. Geoderma doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2007.05.012

39. Tranter, G., Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., Murphy, B., McKenzie, N.J., Grundy, M., Brough, D., 2007. Building and testing conceptual and empirical models for predicting soil bulk density. Soil Use and Management doi: 10.1111/j.1475-2743.2007.00092.x

40. Minasny, B, Hartemink, A.E., McBratney, A.B., 2007. Soil science and the h index. Scientometrics (In Press). doi:  10.1007/s11192-007-1811-z

41. Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., Field, D.J., Tranter, G., McKenzie, N.J., Brough, D.M, 2007.Relationships between field texture and particle-size distribution and their implications. Australian Journal of Soil Research  45, 428-437.  doi:10.1071/SR07051.

42. Minasny, B, McBratney, A.B., 2007. Incorporating taxonomic distance into spatial prediction and digital mapping of soil classes. Geoderma 142, 285–293.  doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2007.08.022  

43. Salvador-Blanes, S., Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., 2007. Modelling long term in-situ soil profile evolution - application to the genesis of soil profiles containing stone layers. European Journal of Soil Science doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2389.2007.00961.x

44. Minasny, B. 2007. Predicting soil properties. Jurnal Ilmu Tanah dan Lingkungan 7 No.1 (2007) p: 54-67.

45. Odgers, N.P., McBratney, A.B., Minasny, B., 2008. Generation of kth-order random toposequences. Computers and Geosciences 34, 479-490.

46. Minasny, B, McBratney, A.B., Salvador-Blanes, S., 2008. Quantitative models for pedogenesis - A Review. Geoderma 144, 140-157.

47. Hartemink, A.E., McBratney, A.B., Minasny, B., 2008. Trends in soil science education: Looking beyond the number of students. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 63, 76-83.

48. Field, D.J., Minasny, B., Comments on “Modeling Energy Inputs to Predict Pedogenic Environments Using Regional Environmental Databases”. Soil Science Society of America Journal 72, 858–859.

49. Tranter, G., Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., Viscarra Rossel, R., Murphy, B. 2008. Comparing spectral soil inference systems and mid-infrared spectroscopy predictions of soil volumetric moisture retention. Soil Science Society of America Journal (In Press)

50. Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., Tranter, G., Murphy, B. 2008. Using soil knowledge for the evaluation of mid-infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for predicting soil physical and mechanical properties. European Journal of Soil Science (In Press)

51. Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., 2008. Regression rules as a tool for predicting soil properties from infrared reflectance spectroscopy. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems (In Press)

 

Book Review

Minasny, B., 2004. Soil water dynamics, by A.W. Warrick. Geoderma 122(1), 103-104.

Minasny, B., 2006. Microwave Dielectric Behavior of Wet Soils, by J. Behari. Geoderma 133, 478-479.

 

Chapter in Books

Minasny, B., George, B. H., 2001. Measuring soil water movement in the field. In: Describing, Analysing and Managing Our Soil (Cattle, S.R. & George, B.H. Eds). First Edition. Proceedings of the DAMOS '99 workshop held at The University of Sydney, November 22nd-26th, 1999. The University of Sydney and Australian Soil Science Society, NSW Branch. pp. 185-204.

George, B. H., Minasny, B., 2001. Soil water content measurement. In: Describing, Analysing and Managing Our Soil (Cattle, S.R. & George, B.H. Eds). First Edition. Proceedings of the DAMOS '99 workshop held at The University of Sydney, November 22nd-26th, 1999. The University of Sydney and Australian Soil Science Society, NSW Branch. pp. 205-226.

Minasny, B., Perfect, E., 2005. Solute adsorption and transport parameters. In: Ya. Pachepsky, W.J. Rawls (Eds), Development of Pedotransfer Functions in Hydrology. Developments in Soil Science 30. pp. 195-224. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

McBratney, A.B., Minasny, B., 2005. Soil inference systems. In: Ya. Pachepsky, W.J. Rawls (Eds), Development of Pedotransfer Functions in Hydrology. Developments in Soil Science 30. pp. 323-348. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Bishop, T.F.A., Minasny, B., 2005. Digital soil-terrain modelling: the predictive potential and uncertainty. In: Grunwald, S. (Ed.), Environmental Soil-Landscape Modeling. Geographic Information Technologies and Pedometrics. pp. 185-213. Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, Florida.

Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B. 2007. Latin hypercube sampling as a tool for digital soil mapping. In: Lagacherie, P., McBraney, A.B., Voltz, M. (Eds.) Digital Soil Mapping: an Introductory Perspective. Pp. 155-167. Elsevier.

Mendonça-Santosa, M.L., McBratney, A.B., Minasny, B. 2007. Soil prediction with spatially decomposed environmental factors. In: Lagacherie, P., McBraney, A.B., Voltz, M. (Eds.) Digital Soil Mapping: an Introductory Perspective. pp. 277-286. Elsevier.

Minasny, B., McBratney, A. B., McKenzie, N.J., Grundy, M.J., 2007. Chapter 22. Predicting soil properties using pedotransfer functions and environmental correlation. In: N.J. McKenzie, M.J. Grundy, R. Webster, A.J. Ringroase-Voase (Eds). Australian Soil and Land Survey Handbook Series: Guidelines for Conducting Surveys. CSIRO Publishing (In Press). Pp. 351-369.

Minasny, B., Bishop, T.F.A., 2007. Chapter 24. Analysing uncertainty. In: N.J. McKenzie, M.J. Grundy, R. Webster, A.J. Ringroase-Voase (Eds). Australian Soil and Land Survey Handbook Series: Guidelines for Conducting Surveys. CSIRO Publishing (In Press). Pp. 385-395.

 


Conference Full Papers

McBratney, A.B., Whelan, B.M., Walvoort, D.J.J., Minasny, B., 1999. A purposive sampling scheme for precision agriculture. In: Precision Agriculture ’99 (J.V. Stafford Ed.), pp 101-110, Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield.

Whelan, B.M., McBratney, A.B., and Minasny, B., 2001. Vesper – Spatial prediction software for precison agriculture. In: ECPA 2001. Third European Conference on Precision Agriculture. (G. Grenier, S. Blackmore Eds.) pp. 139-144. Agro Montpellier, Ecole Nationale Agronomique de Montpellier.

Minasny, B., and McBratney, A.B., 2002. Soil inference system. Paper No. 1068. Transactions of the 17th World Congress of Soil Science, Bangkok - 4-21 August 2002.

McBratney, A.B., and Minasny, B., 2002. Pedogenetic classification from soil-landscape modelling. Paper No. 1069. Transactions of the 17th World Congress of Soil Science, Bangkok - 4-21 August 2002.

Vanags, C., Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., 2004. The dynamic penetrometer for assessment of soil mechanical resistance. Supersoil, 3rd Australia New Zealand Soil Conference. Sydney 5-9 December 2004.

McBratney, A.B., Minasny, B., Whelan, B.M., 2005. Obtaining ‘useful’ high-resolution soil data from proximally-sensed electrical conductivity/resistivity (PSEC/R) surveys. Precision Agriculture ’05. J.V. Stafford (Ed). pp. 503-510.

Rogers, D., Ancev, T., McBratney, A.B., Minasny, B., 2007. Incorporating economic criteria into the optimal delineation of management zones. Precison Agriculture '07. 6th European Conference on Precision Agriculture, 3-6 June 2007 Skiathos, Greece.

Reports

Carlile, P., Bui, E., Moran, C., Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., 2001. Estimating soil particle size distributions and percent sand, silt and clay for six texture classes using the Australian Soil Resource Information System point database. CSIRO Land and Water. Technical Report 29/01, July, 2001. http://www.clw.csiro.au/publications/technical2001/tr29-01.pdf

Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B., Mendonça Santos, M.L., dos Santos, H.G., 2003. Revisão sobre Funções de Pedotransferência (PTFs) e Novos Métodos de Predição de Classes e Atributos do Solo. Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária. Centro Nacional de Pesquisa de Solos – CNPS, Rio de Janeiro. http://www.cnps.embrapa.br/solosbr/pdfs/pedotransferencia.pdf

 

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