2128 results about "Soil surface" patented technology

The invention discloses ion mineralization stabilizer for treating soil with heavy metal pollution and an application method thereof. The ion mineralization stabilizer comprises, by weight percent, 5-30% of sulfur-based compound, 10-50% of phosphor-based compound, 10-50% of calcium-based compound, and 10-30% of silicon-based compound. The materials are respectively ground into powders with particle size not less than 200 meshes, and the powders are proportionally mixed well. The application method of the ion mineralization stabilizer for treating soil with heavy metal pollution includes: detecting arsenic content and leaching toxicity of the soil to be treated, placing the ion mineralization stabilizers in different proportions on the surface of the soil to be treated according to pollution level, well mixing to form mixed soil by ploughing and stirring, adding water to keep the water content of the mixed soil no less than 25%, covering the mixed soil with moisturizing material, curing for at least 5 days to keep heavy metals in the mixed soil to form stable minerals.

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.

An agricultural implement system is provided that includes a down force cylinder configured to apply a downward force to a row unit, a depth control cylinder configured to vary a penetration depth of a ground engaging tool of the row unit, a press wheel cylinder configured to vary contact force between a press wheel and a soil surface, a closing disk cylinder configured to vary contact force between a closing disk and the soil surface, a residue manager cylinder configured to vary contact force between a residue manager and the soil surface, or a combination thereof. The agricultural implement system also includes an electronic control unit configured to automatically regulate a pressure within the cylinders, and a manual backup system configured to facilitate manual pressure adjustment of the cylinders.

An arrangement for controlling the height above or depth below an irregular surface of a body moving over or below the surface includes a rotation sensor coupled to a controller responsive to an angular deflection signal output by the rotation sensor. The rotation sensor and controller are mounted to a vehicle moving over the surface such as an agricultural vehicle traversing a field. A semi-rigid, flexible arm has a first end coupled to the rotation sensor with a ground engaging member attached to a second opposed end of the arm. In one embodiment, the flexible arm includes an elongated coil spring attached to a rigid shaft and the ground engaging member is a spherical ball attached to the shaft's distal end. The coil spring is pre-loaded to a selected bending or flexure force and permits the ground engaging member to impact obstructions in the field without damage to the rotation sensor. The coil spring also prevents damage to the rotation sensor when the vehicle is reversed in direction. The flexible arm may be urged downwardly to ensure that the ground engaging member contacts the soil and upward and downward rotation stops may be provided to limit rotation of the rotation sensor and flexible arm combination. When a plurality of rotation sensors and flexible arms are employed such as along the length of a combine header, each rotation sensor may be individually calibrated by rotating the sensor relative to the head unit to which it is mounted to permit all sensors to uniformly measure the height above or depth below the soil surface.

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.

An artificial grass surface (10) suited for bordering a runway (12) of an airfield in order to reduce the presence of birds in the airfield. The artificial grass surface (10) includes a pile fabric (14) having a plurality of pile elements (20) extending from a backing mat (18) and resembling grass. A water barrier (24) is provided for preventing water from percolating to the compacted soil surface. An infilled particulate material (22) is dispersed among the pile elements (20). A stabilizer is provided to resist dislodgment of the infilled particulate material (22) at the edges of the runways by the thrust of jet engines and to keep the particulate material (22) in the pile elements (20) when the edges of the runways are vacuumed to remove silt.

An agricultural implement system is provided that includes a down force cylinder configured to apply a downward force to a row unit, a depth control cylinder configured to vary a penetration depth of a ground engaging tool of the row unit, a press wheel cylinder configured to vary contact force between a press wheel and a soil surface, a closing disk cylinder configured to vary contact force between a closing disk and the soil surface, a residue manager cylinder configured to vary contact force between a residue manager and the soil surface, or a combination thereof. The agricultural implement system also includes an electronic control unit configured to automatically regulate a pressure within the cylinders, and a manual backup system configured to facilitate manual pressure adjustment of the cylinders.

An erosion control system and method wherein a fabric filter bag is embedded with and / or filled with a flocculating polymer and is positioned on a sloping soil surface to dam and pond water flowing thereacross for settling of the particles in the water, and as the ponding water seeps into the bag the colloidal particles will be filtered or agglomerated for settling. The water then passes through and out of the bag and is further subjected to agglomeration and filtering by a skirt of filter material also impregnated with flocculating polymer, said skirt being anchored to the bag or stacked to maintain the position adjacent and downslope from the bag.

The invention discloses a saline-alkali soil improvement method. The saline-alkali soil improvement method comprises the following steps: a step I of leveling and cultivating, wherein the saline-alkali soil is firstly leveled and then deeply cultivated by 40 centimeters by virtue of deep-ploughing machinery; after being diluted by 100 times with water, green manure nutrient liquor brewed by a three-in-one leavening agent is used for irrigation; a step II of applying fertilizer and cultivating, wherein aeolian sandy soil easily obtained locally is uniformly scattered on the surface of primarily leveled and cultivated soil; a step III of preparing rectangular pieces of land in a field and planting, wherein planting ridge rectangular pieces of land in the field are designed and manufactured; a step IV of subsequently governing, wherein measures of not using fertilizers and substances which are not chemically synthesized in early-stage, middle-stage and later-stage filed management processes after the plants are planted, not watering and uninterruptedly irrigating the green manure nutrient liquor are taken. The saline-alkali soil improvement method disclosed by the invention can be used for strengthening soil fertility, and changing physical and chemical properties and microbial activity of the soil.

The invention relates to multifunction degradable pollutant liquid mulching film and its preparation method. It includes the following steps: using the degradability of the polyvinyl alcohol and starch, the water retention property of the acrylic acid polymer to synthesize starch group polymer; diluting by water to spray for forming. The mulching film has the advantages of convenient using, low cost, preventing water content from evaporating, degradable, wide application range such as agriculture production, forestation etc.

An agricultural implement system is provided that includes a row unit configured to deposit agricultural material into soil along a direction of travel. The agricultural implement system also includes a sensor configured to output a signal indicative of soil displaced by the row unit, and an implement controller communicatively coupled to the sensor. The implement controller is configured to determine a smoothness of a soil finish behind the row unit along the direction of travel based on the signal. The controller is also configured to adjust a parameter affecting the soil finish while the smoothness is outside of a desired range.

A soil monitoring system is provided that includes a sensing shank, and a first sensor coupled to a leading edge of the sensing shank. The first sensor is configured to output first signals indicative of a pressure exerted on the first sensor by soil as the sensing shank is driven through the soil along a direction of travel. The soil monitoring system also includes a frame forming a channel oriented in a substantially vertical direction relative to a surface of the soil, and a carrier coupled to the sensing shank and disposed within the channel. The soil monitoring system further includes an actuator extending between the frame and the carrier. The actuator is configured to linearly drive the carrier in a reciprocating motion to vary a penetration depth of the sensing shank within the soil.

A method for fixating sand while growing plants by spraying slurry to form a cover layer on the surface of desert or ground includes such steps as proportionally preparing slurry from water, strew or stalk or industrial fibrous dregs, adhesive loess or laterite, water-preserving agent, adhesive, cotton or wool fibres, composite fertilizer, trace element fertilizer, modified gypsum, ox(or sheep) dung, saw dust, phosphoric acid and plant seeds, and spraying it onto surface of desert or ground. Its advantages are high effect and low cost.

The invention discloses a heavy-metal-polluted acidic soil repairing material as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The repairing material is prepared from the following raw materials in percentage by weight: 10-20% of biomass electric power plant ash, 10-20% of slag powder, 10-30% of steel slag powder, 5-10% of fly ash and 25-50% of bentonite by uniformly mixing in a dry powder state. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: firstly, drying the raw materials until the water content is smaller than or equal to 1%; then, respectively weighing the raw materials according to the percentage by weight; and finally, uniformly stirring. The in-situ repairing of heavy-metal-polluted acidic soil is achieved by covering a layer of repairing material on the soil surface, uniformly mixing the soil surface layer with the repairing material in plowing and stirring modes, and detecting the contents of Cd, Pb, Cr, Cu, Zn, Mn, Hg, As and Ni in the repaired soil and the soil pH value after 3-6 months until meeting the requirements of the second-level soil environment quality standard in GB15618-1995.

The present invention relates to a method for improving saline-alkali soil. Said invention utilizes straws and stalks of crops and plant branch and leaf as base material, and adopts the following steps: soaking the base material in fungous solution, binding it into the column form, making the column-form base material be embedded into the soil vertically according to the network form, utilizing the dialysis produced by said network-shaped base material and soil to prevent the salt content in the underground water from dire4ctly rising to soil surface and concentrating to make soil be salinized. Besides, covering the soil surface with pulverized straws and stalks of crops and plant branch and leaf, making irrigation by using the invented irrigation liquor, ploughing to make soil be loosened so as to attain the goal for improving saline-alkali soil.

A low till agricultural implement has a frame with a hitch for attachment to a tractor. An shallow-angled blade gang composed of an array of parallel ultra-shallow inclined disk blades is mounted to the front of the frame, and is followed by at least one wheel, spiral reel, and spike tooth harrow. The ultra-shallow inclined disk blades are mounted perpendicular to rotating shafts, and slice through field residue and soil with minimal lateral movement of material. The blades of the following reel then make cuts nearly perpendicular to those made by the circular blades. A trailing rolling basket or other finishing implement follows the spiral reel. The implement aids in drying the soil surface layer. Also, by cutting up residue and evenly spreading debris and topsoil, the implement helps to warm up the soil.

This invention relates to one sample method and device for evaporated gas above water and earth, wherein, the device comprises the following parts: one dynamic sample box with mixture pusher; one nitrogen compression gas storage bottle through pressure release valve and input gas flow meter to the gas in mouth of sample box; the gas exit mouth is connected to the three-way valve input end with first connected to one small air pump through one single valve and with second output end connected to vacuum sample machine to form sample system.

Slope surfaces of land can be eroded by rain and wind. It is necessary to vegetate a bared slope surface of land for the purpose of erosion control and environmental conservation. The present invention provides a vegetation base soil composition and a method of growing vegetation on a sloped surface for erosion control and vegetating on cut rock slope surface, such as weathered rock surface and barren soil surface. The vegetation base soil includes peat, bio-solids formed by the treatment of urban sewage, for example water treatment plant sediment, woodchip, bark, animal waste compost and clay or loam. The vegetation base soil with a microbes active material, a root activation fertilizer, an adhesive material and seeds are applied over a mesh that is secured over the sloped surface. Plants are grown in the layer of vegetation base soil.

The invention discloses a data assimilation method for monitoring soil moisture. The method provided by the invention at least comprises an assimilation cycle, and each assimilation cycle comprises the following steps: (1) an ecological process model serves as a dynamic model to stimulate the space distribution state of soil moisture every day, the initial value in the dynamic model is an initial parameter and an initial soil moisture data, and the dynamic model is operated to output simulative soil moisture data; remotely sensed data on the soil surface is performed with inversion to obtain surface layer soil moisture data; the simulative soil moisture data in the remotely sensed data corresponding date is combined with the surface layer soil moisture data obtained by remotely sensed data inversion for data assimilation so as to obtain an optimized ecological process model parameter; (2) the optimized parameter is substituted into the dynamic model in step (1) to operate the dynamic model so as to obtain simulative soil moisture data every day. The method provided by the invention can connect soil moisture variety with vegetable physiological response mechanism by water deficit and stress, which improves the precision of field soil moisture monitoring and drought evaluation and has important application prospect.

An erosion control system and method wherein a fabric filter bag is embedded with and / or filled with a flocculating polymer and is positioned on a sloping soil surface to dam and pond water flowing thereacross for settling of the particles in the water, and as the ponding water seeps into the bag the colloidal particles will be filtered or agglomerated for settling. The water then passes through and out of the bag and is further subjected to agglomeration and filtering by a skirt of filter material also impregnated with flocculating polymer, said skirt being anchored to the bag or stacked to maintain the position adjacent and downslope from the bag.

An apparatus for monitoring soil compaction using a compaction machine which applies periodic impact blows to the soil surface. The apparatus comprising a rotatable, multi-sided compactor mass that applies periodic impact blows to the soil surface when rolled over that surface. Data related to the level of compaction of the soil surface is derived, during compaction of the soil surface, from the deceleration of the compactor mass as it impacts the soil surface. This is achieved using one or more accelerometers mounted on the impact compactor.

An artificial grass surface (10) suited for bordering a runway (12) of an airfield in order to reduce the presence of birds in the airfield. The artificial grass surface (10) includes a pile fabric (14) having a plurality of pile elements (20) extending from a backing mat (18) and resembling grass. A water barrier (24) is provided for preventing water from percolating to the compacted soil surface. An infilled particulate material (22) is dispersed among the pile elements (20). A stabilizer is provided to resist dislodgment of the infilled particulate material (22) at the edges of the runways by the thrust of jet engines and to keep the particulate material (22) in the pile elements (20) when the edges of the runways are vacuumed to remove silt.

The invention provides a manufacturing process and an application method of a ginseng bio-organic fertilizer. By the manufacturing process and the application method, since ginsengs grow continuously in the same place for years, with the extension of the growing years, the problems of serious diseases, yield reduction and quality reduction of ginsengs are caused, the soil conditions deteriorate gradually and the fertility is reduced. The ginseng bio-organic fertilizer is prepared from the following raw materials in percentage by weight: 0.2-0.5% of a composite microbial agent, 0.2-1.0% of composite amino acid, 60.0-80.0% of organic material main ingredient and 10.0-30.0% of organic material auxiliary materials through composting together. The bio-organic fertilizer is spread on the surface of soil uniformly during soil preparation, the dosage is 2-10kg.m<-2>; through turning and rotary tillage, the fertilizer is mixed uniformly with 20cm deep bed soil, and the ginsengs are planted after seven days. By the manufacturing process and application, the problems of gradually deteriorating soil conditions and reducing fertility during the ginseng growing process are solved, the purpose of fertilizing soil, reducing diseases of ginsengs and improving yield and quality is achieved, and meanwhile, the soil ecological environment is protected.

Soil profiles of sports fields, such as those in stadiums and golf courses, are treated by injecting or suctioning gases and water by means of buried horizontal pipe arrays or by vertical penetrators. The extent of soil treatment is controlled by measurement of subsurface gas composition and pressure at locations remote from the point of gas injection or removal, preferably by using a special probe. Penetrators and probes form seals within shaped holes in the soil profile, to control the depth of the layer at which gas is exchanged, and to inhibit atmospheric air flow vertically along the bodies of the devices. For example, a conical penetrator section forms a seal within the hole by compacting the shoulder of a stepped hole and it forms a second seal at the surface of the soil by means of a plate and gasket. In other penetrator installations, a radially expansible material forms the seal. Penetrators of one or two part construction may be removably installed in fields, to facilitate re-treatment. Vertical penetrators are also permanently installed and connected by an subterranean pipe array.

The invention discloses a method for reducing the content of cadmium in rice. The method includes the steps that in farmland polluted by cadmium, tobaccos are planted in the first half year, and rice is planted in the second half year. A rice planting method includes the following steps that 1, biochar and a soil heavy metal passivant are mixed and scattered on the surface of soil of the farmland polluted by cadmium, then the biochar, the passivant and the soil are mixed to be even, after three days, a base fertilizer is applied, and rice is transplanted, wherein the amount of the adopted biochar is 50-150 kg / hm<2>, and the quantity of the adopted soil heavy metal passivant is 300-6,000 kg / hm<2>; 2, when the rice grows to be in the booting stage, water-solubility leaf silicon fertilizers are sprayed twice, wherein the spraying time interval of the water-solubility leaf silicon fertilizers is 5-7 days, and the quantity of the adopted water-solubility leaf silicon fertilizers is 1,500-6,000 ml / hm<2>. According to the method, the content of cadmium in rice is reduced through the combined effect of the biochar, the soil heavy metal passivant and the water-solubility leaf silicon fertilizers; the biochar serves as an effective component for reducing the content of cadmium in rice, raw materials of the biochar are easy to obtain, and cost is low; the content of cadmium in rice is further reduced through the biochar prepared from tobacco straw and waterflooding management.

The invention relates to procedures of soil disinfection to prevent and wipe out facility vegetable soil-borne diseases, operation steps are as follows: smoothing and watering the soil during the season with high temperature and good illumination to make sure relative humidity of the soil is 65%-80%, liming calcium cyan amide equably 6-100kg per 1000 m2 two days after watering, ploughing under to 30-40cm to make sure that the calcium cyan amide and the soil are mixed equably, confining the surface of the soil with transparent film and the booth or glasshouse totally for 12-20 days. The invention is mainly used for preventing and curing facility vegetable soil-borne diseases of cucumber, tomato, hot pepper, eggplant and so on, caused by pathogeny epiphyte, bacteria and wireworm. The invention prevents and cures soil-borne diseases greatly and duratively, offering vegetables nitrogen, decrease the accumulation of nitrate, accelerating plant growth. Said procedures of soil disinfection are novel to operate with easy steps, low cost, high efficiency and safety, significant economic benefit.