Soil- Water- Root Processes

Rapid advances in tomography and imaging techniques and their successful application in soil and plant science are changing our sciences today. Many more articles using imaging and tomography are being published currently compared to 20 years ago. Soil–Water–Root Processes: Advances in Tomography and Imaging is a unique assemblage of contributions exploring applications of imaging and tomography systems in soil science—it provides an updated collection of X-ray computed tomography, synchrotron microtomography, neutron imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, geophysical imaging tools, and other tomography techniques for evaluating soils and roots. Exciting new procedures and applications have been developed, with the promise to propel forward our understanding of soil and plant properties and processes.

Foreword | vii Preface | ix Contributors | xi Chapter 1 | 1 Using Synchrotron-Based X-Ray Microtomography and Functional Contrast Agents in Environmental Applications Dorthe Wildenschild, Mark L. Rivers, Mark L. Porter, Gabriel C. Iltis, Ryan T. Armstrong, and Yohan Davit Chapter 2 | 23 Tomographic Investigations Relevant to the Rhizosphere Keith W. Jones, Jun Wang, Yu-chen Chen, Qingxi Yuan, W. Brent Lindquist, Lauren Beckingham, Catherine A. Peters, Wooyong Um, Lee Newman, Tara Sabo-Attwood, and Ryan Tappero Chapter 3 | 39 Synchrotron X-Ray Microtomography—New Means to Quantify Root Induced Changes of Rhizosphere Physical Properties Jazmín E. Aravena, Markus Berli, Manoj Menon, Teamrat A. Ghezzehei, Ajay K. Mandava, Emma E. Regentova, Natarajan S. Pillai, John Steude, Michael H. Young, Peter S. Nico, and Scott W. Tyler Chapter 4 | 69 Effects of Root-Induced Biopores on Pore Space Architecture Investigated with Industrial X-Ray Computed Tomography Sebastian K. Pagenkemper, Stephan Peth, Daniel Uteau Puschmann, and Rainer Horn Chapter 5 | 97 Computed Tomographic Evaluation of Earth Materials with Varying Resolutions Ranjith P. Udawatta, Stephen H. Anderson, Clark J. Gantzer, and Shmuel Assouline Chapter 6 | 113 Applications of Neutron Imaging in Soil–Water–Root Systems Ahmad B. Moradi, Sascha E. Oswald, Manoj Menon, Andrea Carminati, Eberhard Lehmann, and Jan W. Hopmans Chapter 7 | 137 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques for Visualization of Root Growth and Root Water Uptake Processes A. Pohlmeier, S. Haber-Pohlmeier, M. Javaux, and H. Vereecken Chapter 8 | 157 Segmentation of X-Ray CT Data of Porous Materials: A Review of Global and Locally Adaptive Algorithms Markus Tuller, Ramaprasad Kulkarni, and Wolfgang Fink Chapter 9 | 183 Heterogeneous Porous Media Structure Analysis with Computed Tomography Images and a Multiphase Bin Semivariogram Glenn O. Brown and Jason R. Vogel Chapter 10 | 205 Characterization of Porous Media Computer Tomography Images Using Semivariogram Families Jason R. Vogel and Glenn O. Brown Chapter 11 | 223 Electrical Resistivity Tomography of the Root Zone Alex Furman, Ali Arnon-Zur, and Shmuel Assouline Chapter 12 | 247 Geophysical Methods for Field-Scale Imaging of Root Zone Properties and Processes J. Vanderborght, J.A. Huisman, J. van der Kruk, and H. Vereecken Index | 283