Roots2025 - A presentation of the GEOSPACE system

This is the presentation I am giving at the Roots2025 event . It talks about the GEOSPACE infrastructured to study the soil-plant-atmosphere interactions.  Being a very compressed presentation I cannot go to all the details which are better grasped by reading the references below or browsing the various contributions that can be found in this blog under the keyword  GEOSPACE. 

GEOSPACE infrastructure is very modular and its peculiarity is that it is based on "components" that are joined with a scripting language just before being executed. The system managing such components is OMS3.  GEOSPACE integrated two big subprojects, WHETGEO the subsystem that deals with soil and infiltration and GEOET the system that contains various solutions for estimating evaporation and transpiration. To get the slides, clik on the figure above. To get the code look at the Gitub repository. Video lectures (here) or to a certain extent here. To get more information read the following references.

References

D’Amato, Concetta. n.d. “Exploring the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum: Advancements, Integrated Modeling and Ecohydrological Insights.” Ph.D., Università di Trento.

D’Amato, Concetta, and Riccardo Rigon. 2025. “Elementary Mathematics Helps to Shed Light on the Transpiration Budget under Water Stress.” Ecohydrology: Ecosystems, Land and Water Process Interactions, Ecohydrogeomorphology 18 (2). https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.70009.

D’Amato, Concetta, Niccolò Tubini, and Riccardo Rigon. 2025. “A Component-Based Modular Treatment of the Soil–Plant–Atmosphere Continuum: The GEOSPACE Framework (v.1.2.9).” Geoscientific Model Development 18 (20): 7321–55. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-7321-2025.

Tubini, Niccolò, and Riccardo Rigon. 2022. “Implementing the Water, HEat and Transport Model in GEOframe (WHETGEO-1D v.1.0): Algorithms, Informatics, Design Patterns, Open Science Features, and 1D Deployment.” Geoscientific Model Development 15 (1): 75–104. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-75-2022.

Bonus Reference (unpublished so far)

Tubini, N., and R. Rigon. n.d. “WHETGEO-2D: A Framework to Solve 2D Partial Differential Equation Domain within GEOframe System. The Richardson-Richards Equation.” http://abouthydrology.blogspot.com/2022/08/whetgeo-2d-open-source-tool-fo-solving.html.