AIMC Topic: Soil

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Predicting the concentration of total coliforms in treated rural domestic wastewater by multi-soil-layering (MSL) technology using artificial neural networks.

Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
Many indicators are involved in monitoring water quality. For instance, the fecal indicator bacteria are extremely important to detect the water quality. For this purpose, to better predict the total coliforms at the outlet of a Multi-Soil-Layering (...

Smart Multi-Sensor Platform for Analytics and Social Decision Support in Agriculture.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Smart agriculture based on new types of sensors, data analytics and automation, is an important enabler for optimizing yields and maximizing efficiency to feed the world's growing population while limiting environmental pollution. The aim of this pap...

SBOR: a minimalistic soft self-burrowing-out robot inspired by razor clams.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
We observe that the Atlantic razor clam (Ensis directus) burrows out of sand rapidly by simply extending and contracting its muscular foot. This is notably different from its well-known downward burrowing strategy or the dual-anchor mechanism, where ...

Prediction of Soil Adsorption Coefficient in Pesticides Using Physicochemical Properties and Molecular Descriptors by Machine Learning Models.

Environmental toxicology and chemistry
The soil adsorption coefficient (K ) plays an important role in environmental risk assessment of pesticide registration. Based on this risk assessment, applied and registered pesticides can be allowed in the European Union. Almost 1 yr is required to...

Assessing alternative methods for unsupervised segmentation of urban vegetation in very high-resolution multispectral aerial imagery.

PloS one
To analyze types and patterns of greening trends across a city, this study seeks to identify a method of creating very high-resolution urban vegetation maps that scales over space and time. Vegetation poses unique challenges for image segmentation be...

Artificial intelligence models to predict acute phytotoxicity in petroleum contaminated soils.

Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
Environment pollutants, especially those from total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH), have a highly complex chemical, biological and physical impact on soils. Here we study this influence via modelling the TPH acute phytotoxicity effects on eleven sample...

Combination of compositional data analysis and machine learning approaches to identify sources and geochemical associations of potentially toxic elements in soil and assess the associated human health risk in a mining city.

Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Mining activities change the chemical composition of the environment and have negative reflection on people's health and there is no single measure to deal with adverse consequences of mining activities, as each case is specific and needs to be under...

Comparison of Two Bayesian-MCMC Inversion Methods for Laboratory Infiltration and Field Irrigation Experiments.

International journal of environmental research and public health
Bayesian parameter inversion approaches are dependent on the original forward models linking subsurface physical properties to measured data, which usually require a large number of iterations. Fast alternative systems to forward models are commonly ...

Effects of corn straw on dissipation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and potential application of backpropagation artificial neural network prediction model for PAHs bioremediation.

Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
In order to provide a viable option for remediation of PAHs-contaminated soils, a greenhouse experiment was conducted to assess the effect of corn straw amendment (1%, 2%, 4% or 6%, w/w) on dissipation of aged polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) ...

Artificial neural network model to predict transport parameters of reactive solutes from basic soil properties.

Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Measurement of solute-transport parameters through soils for a wide range of solute- and soil-types is time-consuming, laborious, expensive and practically impossible. So, indirect methods for estimating the transport parameters by pedo-transfer func...