990 results about "Soil properties" patented technology

A model for determining the type of soil, the water content of a soil, and the soil properties, and a soil measurement data storage portion (60) to store therein measurement data necessary to carry out the model and correlated with specific measurement conditions are provided. The water content is measured by a water content measuring portion (57) on the basis of the measurement data fed from a soil sensor (S). The type of soil is determined by a feature extracting portion (56) and a type-of-soil determining portion (58), and the determined type of soil is sent to a determining portion (59). The determining portion (59) determines corresponding conditions and a model according to the type of soil and water content of the measured place received and sets them in a predetermined processing portion. The soil sensor feeds measurement data meeting the measurement conditions to a measurement information processing portion (55), and the processing portion (55) determines the soil properties according to the determined model.

The invention provides a system for restoring organic contaminated soil through in-situ electrical heating. The system comprises an infrastructure technology, an electronic control system, a gas treatment system, a monitoring and data acquisition system and a repairing effect comprehensive assessment system. The infrastructure technology comprises heating well and extraction well construction, ground compaction and insulating layer construction technologies; heating wells are distributed on a contaminated site according to a triangle arrangement principle and a proximity principle, and the extraction well is arranged in the geometric center of the layout of the heating well; the gas treatment system is composed of a pre-cooling adsorption sledge, an extraction sledge and a treatment sledge, and is used for completing gas extraction and treatment and achieving the tail gas discharging requirement; and the repairing effect comprehensive assessment system evaluates the temperature risingeffect of the contaminated soil in the restoring process and the treatment effect of the contaminated soil. According to the system, the technological route is complete, the soil property applicability is wide, the heating temperature can reach 500 DEG C or above, and volatile and difficult-to-volatilize organic contaminant can be treated at the same time.

A system for identifying ponding water located on a field from image data is described. In an approach, an image of an agricultural field is analyzed using a classifier that has been trained based on the spectral bands of labeled image pixels to identify a probability for each pixel within the image that the pixel corresponds to water. A flow simulation is performed to determine regions of the field that are likely to pool water after rainfall based on precipitation data, elevation data, and soil property data of the field. A graph of vertices representing the pixels and edges representing connections between neighboring pixels is generated. The probability of each pixel within the graph being ponding water is set based on the probability pixel being water, the likelihood that water will pool in the area represented by the pixel, the probability of neighboring pixels being ponding water, and a cropland mask that identifies which pixels correspond to cropland. A class for each pixel is then determined that maximizes the joint probability over the graph.

The embodiments of the invention are directed to coatings and their uses. More particularly, the embodiments of the invention are directed to coating compositions that include silane-based precursors that are used to form coatings through a sol-gel process. The coatings so formed are characterized by anti-reflective, abrasion resistant, and anti-soiling properties. The coatings also have extended weatherability to heat, humidity, and protection against ambient corrosives. The coatings formed from the compositions described herein have wide application, including, for example, use as coatings on the outer glass of solar cells.

A soil sampling implement and method have a sampler assembly supported from an implement frame for movement across a field. The sampler assembly includes a tapered cylindrical cutting shoe and a soil collection trough. The cutting shoe has a leading cutting edge arranged for movement through soil in a horizontal direction to cut a cylindrical core sample. A sensing device is provided for measuring at least one soil property. The sampler assembly is moved between a lowered position in which the cutting shoe is positioned at a selected sampling depth, and a raised position in which the cutting shoe is positioned above the soil surface and a soil sample contained in the soil collection trough is brought into contact with the sensing device. A cutting shoe scraper engages and cleans the leading cutting edge of the cutting shoe when the sampler assembly is moved between the lowered and raised positions.

A multi-sensor system rapidly measures diffuse reflectance of soil, soil conductivity, and other soil properties in situ, in three dimensions. The system includes a tractor-drawn implement containing a sensor shank used for X-Y axis measurements, a hydraulic probe implement containing a sensor probe for −Z axis measurements, and a set of visible and near-infrared spectrometers, controls, and firmware that are shared by each implement. Both implements include optical sensors and soil electrical conductivity sensors. The probe implement incorporates a sensor that measures insertion force, and the shank implement includes a soil temperature sensor. These combinations of sensors are used to calibrate the system and to characterize the soil properties within a field or area. Geo-referenced soil measurements are collected with the shank implement to identify optimal locations for conducting sensor probe insertions. The probe implement is then used for sensor probing and for collecting soil core samples for lab analysis.

This invention relates to a strain monitor system for slope distributed fibers, which lays out several parallel special optical cables along the slope or at least lays out one close to the slope top and the corner separately, adheres symmetrically two fibers on the outer surface of a tilt testing tube to get the distortion of deep soil helped by the strain of the tube, the special optical cables are melted orderly to constitute a sensor circuit to be connected to BOTDR, which links with remote computers via local computer and internet to constitute distributed fiber strain monitor system and gets the distortion or displacement of the slope by integrating and summing the measured strain distribution further to evaluate and preset to the side slope.

The invention discloses a heavy metal contaminated soil conditioner and a plant and chemistry combined remediation method. The heavy metal contaminated soil conditioner is a mixture of red mud and slaked lime. In the invention, the plant and chemistry combined remediation method is used, the pH of the soil is regulated by a chemical method, and heavy metals in the soil are absorbed by planting energy crops, hyperaccumulative plants and the like, thereby improving the soil properties, gradually reducing the content of heavy metals in the soil, finally achieving the purpose of soil remediation, improving the plant remediation efficiency, and being favorable to large-scale commercial application.

The present invention provides a surface-treating agent to form fine roughness on the surface of a material and more specifically a surface treating-agent which forms fine roughness on the surface of a material and is easy to process, thereby being useful for materials for highly water-repellent glass, lenses and fabric, materials with an excellent anti-soiling property, panels having an excellent light scattering property, illumination of optical fiber and the like, materials and coatings to prevent accumulation and adhesion of snow or icicle formation on antennas, wires and steel towers, and roughness formation on the surface of semiconductor substrates; the treated materials; and a method of surface treatment to develop the roughness. The surface-treating agent of the present invention has an average primary particle diameter in the range of 1-50 nm, contains fine particles in the range of 5-60% by mass of the total amount of the surface-treating agent in a slurry of nanoparticles which are treated for water repellency and mechanically dispersed in a solvent containing a volatile solvent, and forms a roughness structure with upward protrusions having a spatial periodicity of 0.1-50 μm on the surface of a material by volatilizing the solvent or dipping repeatedly in water upon treating the surface of the material.

The invention relates to a circulation well method for removing pollutants in underground water. The circulation well is arranged in a polluted place and is in a continuous plum-blossom-shaped, square or hexagonal layout according to soil property, pollution level and radius of influence on soil by equipment. The circulation well is characterized in that 1-N water wells of which the diameter is not smaller than 100 mm and the depth is greater than one meter are drilled, and treatment processes of aeration, air stripping, extraction and dosing are performed to treat the polluted water in the well, wherein the air stripping treatment process: the well water (i.e. underground water) is lifted to the top of the well and is then sprayed downwards through a spray head; in the aeration and extraction treatment processes: the in-well aeration and the air-emptied extraction increase the air-liquid mass transfer interface and enhance the air stripping effect, and the dissolved oxygen content in the underground water is increased in the in-well aeration process, so that the polluted water is placed in an aerobic environment; and in the dosing treatment process: according to different pollution levels and pollutants, oxidizer, a microbial preparation, ozone or/and flocculant are added at an air inlet A of a high-pressure air pump for aeration or in a special dosing pipe.

An agricultural planter having sensors for measuring multiple soil properties adjusts planting depth and seeding rate in real time based on the measured soil properties. An optical module is carried by the planter for collecting soil reflectance data. A pair of soil contact blades protrude from or are embedded in the optical module for collecting soil EC data and soil moisture data. A switching circuit or phase lock loop allows the same soil contact blades to feed signals to both a soil EC signal conditioning circuit and a soil moisture signal conditioning circuit. The soil moisture data can be used to calibrate the soil EC data and the soil reflectance data to compensate for effects of changing soil moisture conditions across a field. The sensor module can be positioned behind a seed tube and used as a seed firmer, or incorporated into a seed tube guard.

The invention discloses a layered remediation method for chromium contaminated soil. The method comprises the following steps: detecting the actual chromium contamination condition of soil, determining the boundary of severe and mild chromium contaminated soil on soil depth, performing remediation on the severe chromium contaminated soil by adopting a chemical reduction stabilization method, performing remediation on the mild chromium contaminated soil by adopting a chemical or biochemical reduction stabilization method, performing soil conservation, balancing the soil acidity and alkalinity and performing later-stage tracking and monitoring. An actual chromium contaminated field serves as a support, the combined remediation methods are selected aiming at the current situation that the contamination degrees of the upper soil and the bottom soil are different, the severe chromium contaminated soil on the surface layer is subjected to remediation by adopting the chemical reduction stabilization method, the mild chromium contaminated soil on the deep layer is subjected to remediation by adopting the chemical or biochemical reduction stabilization method, the defects that the soil properties are not distinguished and a same remediation method is adopted in a unified mode in the previous research are overcome, and ex-situ remediation and in-situ remediation are combined to be used, so that the remediation method is reasonable in application under the condition that the remediation effect is guaranteed, the remediation cost is reduced, and the method can be applied to actual soil remediation on a large scale.

An agricultural system includes a towing frame to which a planting row unit is attached. The planting row unit is movable in a forward direction on a field having soil of varying hardness conditions, including a soft soil and a hard soil. The planting row unit includes a planting bin positioned rearwardly of the towing frame for carrying at least one of a fertilizer and seeds to be deposited into the soil. The planting row unit further includes a linkage assembly for coupling the planting bin to the towing frame, and an opener device forward of the towing frame. The opener device prepares the soil and includes an opener blade and a soil-hardness sensor. The opener blade maintains the same soil-penetration depth Z in the soft soil and the hard soil based on soil-hardness changes detected by the soil-hardness sensor.

An agricultural system includes a sensor positioned forward of an agricultural implement relative to a direction of travel of the agricultural system. The sensor is configured to output a first signal indicative of at least one soil property associated with an operation of the agricultural implement. The system also includes a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor. The controller is configured to output a second signal indicative of instructions to control the operation of the agricultural implement based on the first signal.

The invention relates to a modeling and numeric value simulating method of ground water environment, comprising the following steps of: (1) carrying out space grid interpolation on surface elevation and embedded depth of groundwater by using space interpolation functions KRIG2D() or TRI<->SURF() functions of IDL (Interface Definition Language) software, and simultaneously dividing a space definite difference molecule value simulation grid to acquire two same differential grid matrixes; setting a simulation region soil property file and a surface elevation and groundwater water level property file; and calculating the embedded depth h0 and unit boundary velocity field of the groundwater; (2) establishing a one-dimension solute transport model in an unsaturated zone; (3) establishing a solute transport two-dimension numeric value model in a saturated zone; (4) carrying out approximate representation on each term in the formula; and (5) solving each component by using IDL matrix algorithm. The invention effectively, quickly and conveniently simulate the groundwater environment based on the IDL platform, thereby the invention is widely used for processes of numeric value simulation, prediction, emergency prediction and the like of the burst pollution event of the groundwater environment.

An agricultural system includes an agricultural row unit movable on a field between a first soil condition and a second soil condition, the first soil condition having a different soil hardness than the second soil condition. A down-pressure actuator applies an initial first pressure associated with the first soil condition. A soil-hardness sensing device is positioned at a distance D forward of the row unit and outputs a soil-hardness change signal when detecting a change from the first soil condition to the second soil condition. At least one memory device stores instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the down-pressure actuator to change, in response to receiving the soil-hardness change signal, the initial first pressure to a different second pressure when the row unit encounters the second soil condition.

A Close planting and high production cultivation method of early bearing walnuts includes the following steps of nursery area selection: selecting an area which is flat in terrain, fertile in soil and loosened in soil property to be a nursery area; selection of seedlings to be planted: selecting seedlings as the seedlings to be planted, wherein graft union shoots of the seedlings reach above 80cm, root systems of the seedlings are complete, the lengths of main roots of the seedlings are above 20cm, and the seedlings have more then 10 strips of branch roots; management after planting: cutting back, pinching, bud picking, side shoot removing, pruning, and auxiliary branch pruning; and fertilization management and insect control: using a sprayer which can spray chemical pesticide to directly spray mist or eradicate insects partially.

Functionalized coatings preferentially coated on the tin-side of float glass used in solar and other applications are disclosed. Coating compositions include silane-based precursors that are used to form coatings through a sol-gel process including hydrolyzed alkoxysilane-based sols. The coatings are characterized by anti-reflective, abrasion resistant, and anti-soiling properties and the tunability of those properties with respect to different applications. The coatings formed from the compositions described herein have wide application, including, for example, use as abrasion resistant coatings on the outer glass of solar modules, wherein the coating adheres through siloxane linkages. In some embodiments, when applied to glass and cured at a temperature of less than 300° C., the dried sol gel has abrasion resistance sufficient to pass standard EN-1096-2 with a loss of transmission of no more than 0.5% and enables a post-test light transmission gain of greater than 1% as compared to uncoated glass.

A soil mapping system for collecting and mapping soil reflectance data in a field includes an implement having a furrow opener for creating a furrow and an optical module. The optical module is arranged to collect soil reflectance data at a predetermined depth within the furrow as the implement traverses a field. The optical module includes two monochromatic light sources, a window arranged to press against the soil, and a photodiode for receiving light reflected back from the soil through the window. The two light sources have different wavelengths and are modulated at different frequencies. The photodiode provides a modulated voltage output signal that contains reflectance data from both of the light sources. Additional measurement devices are carried by the implement for collecting additional soil property data, such as electrical conductivity, pH, and elevation, which can be used together with the optical data to determine variations in soil organic matter.

The invention relates to an underground storey-adding process of a frame structural building by a one-by-one independent foundation underpinning method. In the process, top beams and top supports of the building with a proposed basement and columns and foundations of the completed basement jointly support an upper structure of the building, and then earth excavation and construction of the columns and the foundations of the residual uncompleted basement are continuously carried out. Earth excavation and top support are simultaneously performed; after the original foundations are removed, the load of the upper frame columns is transferred to the adjacent foundations around the columns through the top beams and transferred to earth through the foundations; and after new foundations and an lower ground level underground frame column are constructed, the load of the upper frame columns can be jointly supported by the new foundations, beam supports and the adjacent foundations. Compared with 'a slab foundation underpinning method' in which the upper structure is simply supported by soil mass under slabs, the method is more reliable and can complete underground storey-adding in areas with worse soil property; compared with the underpinning mode of removing the foundations of the whole building simultaneously, the method is more safe; and even though engineering accidents happen, the building is locally but not integrally unstable.

The invention provides a method for using raw material to cultivate morchella. Specifically, a mushroom house with 30% of sunny areas and 70% of sunless areas can be built on the place where soil properties are loose and moist and water is discharged well; corncobs, bits of wood, bran, chaff, bean flour, plant ash, phosphatic fertilizer, gypsum and sugar are utilized as the raw material; cultivation pits are dug in the mushroom house, two layers of the material are laid in each cultivation pit, two layers of strain are scattered in each cultivation pit, and soil covering is conducted; finally, air humidity in the mushroom house keeps ranging from 85% to 95%, temperature ranges from 5 DEG C to 16 DEG C, and sporocarps can be formed in about one mouth in the environment. By means of the method, the defect that mass commercialization artificial cultivation of the morchella is not achieved so far is overcome effectively. Meanwhile, the produced morchella is cultivated in a wild imitating mode, and therefore entities of the morchella are excellent. In addition, when the method is implemented, the raw material is directly used for cultivation, the production process does not have the procedures of bagging, sterilizing and disinfecting, time and labor are saved, and work efficiency is greatly improved.