**Meet the editors**

Prof. Grundas obtained the degree of MSc in 1971 at the University of Life Sciences, Lublin. Since this year he began working at the Institute of Agrophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Lublin, and next obtained the degrees of PhD (1977), and DSc (1988) from this University. In 1994, he was granted the title professor of Agric. Sc. His scientific area is physical properties of plant

materials. The list of his publications amounts to a total of 260, including articles in several encyclopedias on the cereal grains. Editor of the book "Advances in Induction and Microwave Heating of Minerals and Organic Materials" by InTech (2011). Life Member of the AACCInt, member of the Polish Society of Agrophysics, and the Scientific Committee of Agrophysics of the PAS.

Dr Eng. Andrzej Stępniewski graduated from Lublin University of Technology in 1985 and was awarded Engineer degree in mechanics. Since 1986 he has been working at the Institute of Agrophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Lublin, Poland. In 1997 he was awarded PhD in agronomy, agrophysics. His main scientific interest concentrated on mechanical proper-

ties of plant material in the aspect of technological processes. Recently his scientific interest includes the properties of rapeseed and rapeseed oil used as biofuel. He participated in a number of scholarships: at Hohenheim University in 1991 (DAAD); at North Carolina State University in 2000 and at Instituto Agronomico do Parana 2002. He is a member of the International Society of Food Physicists, Polish Society of Agrophysics, Scientific Committee of Agrophysics of the PAS, and Polish Society of Agriculture Engineers. Since 1999 Dr. A. Stępniewski has been working as regional expert of the European Framework Programmes and holds the position of the Director of Regional Contact Point of Research Programmes of European Union.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 General Information on Agrophysics 1**

**Research Objects 3**

Chapter 2 **Aquametry in Agrophysics 17**

Chapter 3 **Time Stability of Soil Water Content 47**

Asim Biswas and Bing Cheng Si

**Wavelet Coherency 97** Asim Biswas and Bing Cheng Si

Elsa Sampaio and Júlio C. Lima

Seth I. Manuwa

Chapter 1 **Introduction to Scientific Discipline Agrophysics — History and**

Wojciech Skierucha, Agnieszka Szypłowska and Andrzej Wilczek

Wei Hu, Lindsay K. Tallon, Asim Biswas and Bing Cheng Si

**Water Storage in a Hummocky Landscape Using Global**

Chapter 6 **Improving Soil Primary Productivity Conditions with Minimum**

**Energy Input in the Mediterranean 115**

Chapter 7 **Soil Behaviour Characteristics Under Applied Forces in Confined and Unconfined Spaces 151**

Chapter 4 **Model Averaging for Semivariogram Model Parameters 81**

Chapter 5 **Scale Dependence and Time Stability of Nonstationary Soil**

B. Dobrzański, S. Grundas and A. Stępniewski

**Section 2 Physical Properties of Soil and Environment 15**
