Site Implementation Plan: Karapinar, Turkey

Table of Contents

1. Site Information
2. Summary
3. Location description
4. Stakeholder information
5. Land use
6. Conservation measures and experimental setup
7. Monitoring activities
   1. Meteorology
   2. One Time Measurements
   3. Repeated Monitoring
   4. Agronomical activities by stakeholder
   5. Yield assessment
8. Analysis

Repeated Monitoring

(visual and measuring):

• Soil surface assessment: measuring organic matter content, porosity, crusting/surface etc.
• Crop characteristics: Throughout the SIP and control field, crop type and their abundance will be determined by visual inspection and probably by photographic image analysis techniques.
• Mulch cover fraction: digital analysis using 1 m2 frames at sample locations.
• Crop growth and health characteristics. Visual expertise assessment.
• Surface roughness observations in selected points.
• Monitoring of applied irrigation amounts.
• Monitoring of soil moisture periodically by direct measurements.