Experimental data showing the effect of wetting on soil structure transformations: 3D images
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Author Spotlight: Advancing Agricultural Land Ecosystem Research with a Hydraulic Property Analyzer to Assess Soil Health
Published on: August 9, 2024
Dmitriy Ivonin1, Timofey Kalnin2, Alexandr Dembovetskiy2
1Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1-2 Leninskie Gory, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
Abstract:
Structure of the pore network of the soil controls many processes in the soil. Soil moistening have a profound impact on soil structure, which may affect a soil functions. This dataset presents the non-destructive three-dimensional (3D) visualization of the same soil sample under two different saturation conditions: air-dried and saturated beyond the field capacity [1]. The data were obtained by X-ray computed tomography and stored as three-dimensional 8-bit grayscale arrays. Two reconstructed images of the same sample were produced for future research. This dataset provides a valuable and unique insight for the qualitative and quantitative analysis.

