• Challenges in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of stabilised clay-based construction materials 

  Marcelino Sádaba, Sara  ; Kinuthia, John; Oti, Jonathan; Seco Meneses, Andrés   (Elsevier, 2017)   Artículo / Artikulua  

  The preference of clay-based materials for sustainable construction is well-established. The establishment ofsustainability credentials of emergent construction materials is very subjective, and most available tools are ...

• Hydrological signatures based on event runoff coefficients in rural catchments of the Iberian Peninsula 

  Taguas, Encarnación V.; Nadal-Romero, Estela; Ayuso, José L.; Casalí Sarasíbar, Javier  ; Cid, Patricio; Dafonte, Jorge; Canatário-Duarte, Antonio; Ferreira, Carla S.S.; Giménez Díaz, Rafael  ; Giráldez Cervera, Juan Vicente; Gómez-Macpherson, Helena; Gómez, Jose A.; González-Hidalgo, J. Carlos; Lana Renault, Noemí; Lucía, Ana; Mateos, Luciano; Pérez, Rafael; Rodríguez-Blanco, M. Luz; Schnabel, Susanne; Serrano-Muela, M. Pilar; Taboada-Castro, M. Mercedes; Taboada-Castro, M. Mercedes; Zabaleta, Ane (Wolters Kluwer, 2017)   Artículo / Artikulua  

  Hydrological signatures are indices that help to describe the behavior of catchments. These indices can also be used to transfer information from gauged to ungauged catchments. In this study, different approaches were ...

• Assessment of soil factors controlling ephemeral gully erosion on agricultural fields 

  Ollobarren del Barrio, Paul ; Campo-Bescós, Miguel  ; Giménez Díaz, Rafael  ; Casalí Sarasíbar, Javier   (Wiley, 2017)   Artículo / Artikulua  

  The soil factor is crucial in controlling and properly modeling the initiation and development of ephemeral gullies (EGs). Usually, EG initiation has been related to various soil properties (i.e. sealing, critical shear ...

• Assessing soil properties controlling interrill erosion: an empirical approach under Mediterranean conditions 

  Ollobarren del Barrio, Paul ; Giménez Díaz, Rafael  ; Campo-Bescós, Miguel   (Wiley, 2017)   Artículo / Artikulua  

  Soil erodibility is a complex phenomenon that comprises a number of different soil properties. However, most current (empirical) erodibility indices are based on only a few soil properties. A feasible soil characterization ...

• Evaluation of 2D models for the prediction of surface depression storage using realistic reference values 

  Giménez Díaz, Rafael  ; Mezkiritz Barberena, Irantzu; Campo-Bescós, Miguel  ; Álvarez-Mozos, Jesús  ; González de Audícana Amenábar, María  ; Martínez de Aguirre Escobar, Alejandro  ; Casalí Sarasíbar, Javier   (Wiley, 2016)   Artículo / Artikulua  

  Depression storage (DS) is the maximum storage of precipitation and runoff in the soil surface at a given slope. The DS is determined by soil roughness that in agricultural soils is largely affected by tillage. The direct ...

• Factors controlling sediment export in a small agricultural watershed in Navarre (Spain) 

  Giménez Díaz, Rafael  ; Casalí Sarasíbar, Javier  ; Grande Esteban, Ildefonso ; Díez Beregaña, Javier ; Campo-Bescós, Miguel  ; Álvarez-Mozos, Jesús  ; Goñi Garatea, Mikel   (Elsevier, 2012)   Artículo / Artikulua  

  It is recognised that the hydrological and erosion processes in watersheds are very much conditioned by the (inter)action of a number of variables. This paper covers a 15-year period of studying those factors that have ...

• Demonstrating correspondence between decision-support models and dynamics of real-world environmental systems 

  Huffaker, Ray; Muñoz Carpena, Rafael  ; Campo-Bescós, Miguel  ; Southworth, Jane (Elsevier, 2016)   Artículo / Artikulua  

  There are increasing calls to audit decision-support models used for environmental policy to ensure that they correspond with the reality facing policy makers. Modelers can establish correspondence by providing empirical ...

• Watering or buffering? Runoff and sediment pollution control from furrow irrigated fields in arid environments 

  Campo-Bescós, Miguel  ; Muñoz Carpena, Rafael  ; Kiker, Gregory A.; Bodah, Brian W.; Ullman, Jeffrey L. (Elsevier, 2015)   Artículo / Artikulua  

  Surface irrigated agriculture in arid and semi-arid regions contributes to downstream environmental degradation. Changes in irrigation system operational scenarios (ISOS) can represent an economic alternative to reduce ...

• Comparison between capacitive and microstructured optical fiber soil moisture sensors 

  López Aldaba, Aitor ; López Torres, Diego  ; Campo-Bescós, Miguel  ; López Rodríguez, José Javier  ; Yerro Lizarazu, David; Elosúa Aguado, César  ; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier  ; Auguste, Jean-Louis; Jamier, Raphael; Roy, Philippe; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel   (MDPI, 2018)   Artículo / Artikulua  

  Soil moisture content has always been an important parameter to control because it is a deterministic factor for site-specific irrigation, seeding, transplanting, and compaction detection. In this work, a discrete sensor ...

• Gully geometry: what are we measuring? 

  Casalí Sarasíbar, Javier  ; Giménez Díaz, Rafael  ; Campo-Bescós, Miguel   (European Geosciences UnionCopernicus Publications, 2015)   Artículo / Artikulua  

  Much of the research on (ephemeral) gully erosion comprises the determination of the geometry of these eroded channels, especially their width and depth. This is not a simple task due to uncertainty generated by the wide ...

• Evaluación de la producción de sedimentos y calidad de las aguas en cuencas agrarias de Navarra 

  Giménez Díaz, Rafael  ; Casalí Sarasíbar, Javier  ; Díez Beregaña, Javier  (Universidad de La Rioja, 2012)   Artículo / Artikulua  

  The Government of Navarre (Spain) established a series of experimental watersheds on different sites of its territory in order to assess the impact of the agricultural activities on the environment. Hydrological/meteorological ...

• Coupling hysteresis analysis with sediment and hydrological connectivity in three agricultural catchments in Navarre, Spain 

  Keesstra, Saskia D.; Davis, Jason; Masselink, Rens Hein; Casalí Sarasíbar, Javier  ; Peeters, Edwin T.H.M.; Dijksma, Roel (Springer Verlag, 2019)   Artículo / Artikulua  

  Purpose: Rain storm events mobilise large proportions of fine sediments in catchment systems. Sediments from agriculturalcatchments are often adsorbed by nutrients, heavy metals and other (in)organic pollutants that may ...

• On the assimilation set-up of ASCAT soil moisture data for improving streamflow catchment simulation 

  Loizu Maeztu, Javier  ; Massari, Christian; Álvarez-Mozos, Jesús  ; Tarpanelli, Angelica; Brocca, Luca; Casalí Sarasíbar, Javier   (Elsevier, 2018)   Artículo / Artikulua  

  Assimilation of remotely sensed surface soil moisture (SSM) data into hydrological catchment models has been identified as a means to improve stream flow simulations, but reported results vary markedly depending on the ...

• Evaluación multitemporal de métodos de corrección topográfica mediante el uso de imágenes sintéticas multiespectrales 

  Sola Torralba, Ion  ; Álvarez-Mozos, Jesús  ; González de Audícana Amenábar, María  ; Torres Escribano, José Luis   (Asociación Española de Teledetección, 2014)   Artículo / Artikulua  

  En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de la evaluación multitemporal de varios métodos de corrección topográfica (TOC), cuya bondad se determina de forma cuantitativa mediante el uso de imágenes sintéticas multiespectrales ...

• Synthetic images for evaluating topographic correction algorithm 

  Sola Torralba, Ion  ; González de Audícana Amenábar, María  ; Álvarez-Mozos, Jesús  ; Torres Escribano, José Luis   (IEEE, 2013)   Artículo / Artikulua  

  In the last years, many topographic correction (TOC) methods have been proposed to correct the illumination differences between the areas observed by optical remote sensors. Although the available number of TOC methods is ...

• Influence of surface roughness sample size for C-band SAR backscatter applications on agricultural soils 

  Martínez de Aguirre Escobar, Alejandro  ; Álvarez-Mozos, Jesús  ; Lievens, Hans; Verhoest, Niko E. C.; Giménez Díaz, Rafael   (IEEE, 2017)   Artículo / Artikulua  

  Soil surface roughness determines the backscatter coefficient observed by radar sensors. The objective of this letter was to determine the surface roughness sample size required in synthetic aperture radar applications and ...

• Influence of surface roughness measurement scale on radar backscattering in different agricultural soils 

  Martínez de Aguirre Escobar, Alejandro  ; Álvarez-Mozos, Jesús  ; Lievens, Hans; Verhoest, Niko E. C. (IEEE, 2017)   Artículo / Artikulua  

  Soil surface roughness strongly affects the scattering of microwaves on the soil surface and determines the backscattering coefficient (σ 0 ) observed by radar sensors. Previous studies have shown important scale issues ...

• Assessing hillslope-channel connectivity in an agricultural catchment using rare-earth oxide tracers and random forests models 

  Masselink, Rens Hein; Temme, A.J.A.M.; Giménez Díaz, Rafael  ; Casalí Sarasíbar, Javier  ; Keesstra, Saskia D. (Universidad de la Rioja, 2017)   Artículo / Artikulua  

  Soil erosion from agricultural areas is a large problem because of off-site effects like the rapid filling of reservoirs. To mitigate the problem of sediments from agricultural areas reaching the channel, reservoirs and ...

• Understanding top management's decision-making on implementing project management systems: an exploratory study 

  Arraiza Irujo, Juan; Pérez Ezcurdia, Amaya   (Mechanical Engineering Faculty in Slavonski Brod, 2017)   Artículo / Artikulua  

  Top Management’s motivation to invest in improving their organisation’s Project Management processes and practices is arguably an important under-researched phenomenon. In this paper we present the results of an exploratory ...

• Prediction of main potato compounds by NIRS 

  López Maestresalas, Ainara  ; Pérez Roncal, Claudia  ; Tierno, Roberto; Arazuri Garín, Silvia  ; Ruiz de Galarreta, José Ignacio ; Jarén Ceballos, Carmen   (AIDIC, 2017)   Artículo / Artikulua  

  Potato (Solanum tuberosum, L) compounds are generally determined by analytical methods including gasliquid chromatography (GLC), HPLC and UV-VIS spectrophotometry. These methods require a lot of time and are destructive. ...

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