Evaluation and Development of Pedotransfer Functions and Artificial Neural Networks to Saturation Moisture Content Estimation
2023
Josué Trejo-Alonso | Sebastián Fuentes | Nami Morales-Durán | Carlos Chávez
Modeling of irrigation and agricultural drainage requires knowledge of the soil hydraulic properties. However, uncertainty in the direct measurement of the saturation moisture content (&theta:s) has been generated in several methodologies for its estimation, such as Pedotransfer Functions (PTFs) and Artificial Neuronal Networks (ANNs). In this work, eight different PTFs were developed for the (&theta:s) estimation, which relate to the proportion of sand and clay, bulk density (BD) as well as the saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks). In addition, ANNs were developed with different combinations of input and hidden layers for the estimation of &theta:s. The results showed R2 values from 0.9046&le:R2&le:0.9877 for the eight different PTFs, while with the ANNs, values of R2>:0.9891 were obtained. Finally, the root-mean-square error (RMSE) was obtained for each ANN configuration, with results ranging from 0.0245&le:RMSE&le:0.0262. It was found that with particular soil characteristic parameters (% Clay, % Silt, % Sand, BD and Ks), accurate estimate of &theta:s is obtained. With the development of these models (PTFs and ANNs), high R2 values were obtained for 10 of the 12 textural classes.
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