123-32 Assessing Particulate Organic Matter In Soil Aggregates Through Image Analysis.

Poster Number 346

See more from this Division: S03 Soil Biology & Biochemistry
See more from this Session: Microbe, Plant , and Soil Interactions (Includes Graduate Student Poster Competition)
Monday, October 17, 2011
Henry Gonzalez Convention Center, Hall C
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Andrew Worth1, Wei Wang1, Alexandra Kravchenko2, M.L. Rivers3 and Alvin Smucker4, (1)Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
(2)A360 Crop and Soil Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
(3)University of Chicago, University of Chicago, IL
(4)Crop and Soil Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Identification of coarse particulate organic matter within micro-CT scanned soil aggregates from different land management techniques. Comparison of segmentation methods to extract coarse pom information from images. Exploration of the area adjacent to the coarse pom to find differences in physical characteristics such as porosity.
See more from this Division: S03 Soil Biology & Biochemistry
See more from this Session: Microbe, Plant , and Soil Interactions (Includes Graduate Student Poster Competition)