A critical review of soil moisture measurement

SL SU, DN Singh, MS Baghini - Measurement, 2014 - Elsevier
Soil moisture content has paramount importance in dictating engineering, agronomic,
geological, ecological, biological and hydrological characteristics of the soil mass. Though …

Measurement of soil water content and electrical conductivity by time domain reflectometry: a review

K Noborio - Computers and electronics in agriculture, 2001 - Elsevier
Non-destructive measurement of soil water content and electrical conductivity has been
desired for many years. Recent development of time domain reflectometry (TDR) enables us …

Evaluation of a low-cost soil water content sensor for wireless network applications

HR Bogena, JA Huisman, C Oberdörster… - Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Wireless sensor networks are a promising new in situ measurement technology for
monitoring soil water content changes with a high spatial and temporal resolution for large …

Seasonal and event dynamics of spatial soil moisture patterns at the small catchment scale

U Rosenbaum, HR Bogena, M Herbst… - Water Resources …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of short‐and long‐term dynamics of spatial soil moisture patterns is
limited due to measurement constraints. Using new highly detailed data, this research aims …

Frequency, electrical conductivity and temperature analysis of a low-cost capacitance soil moisture sensor

F Kizito, CS Campbell, GS Campbell, DR Cobos… - Journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
This study evaluated the family of ECH2O sensors (EC-5 and ECH2O-TE) for measurement
of soil moisture content (θ), bulk electrical conductivity (ECb) and temperature for a range of …

The Murrumbidgee soil moisture monitoring network data set

AB Smith, JP Walker, AW Western… - Water Resources …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This paper describes a soil moisture data set from the 82,000 km2 Murrumbidgee River
Catchment in southern New South Wales, Australia. Data have been archived from the …

Measurement of unfrozen water content and relative permittivity of frozen unsaturated soil using NMR and TDR

K Watanabe, T Wake - Cold Regions Science and Technology, 2009 - Elsevier
The soil-freezing characteristic, the relationship between unfrozen water content and
temperature, is relevant for any mass transfer processes in frozen porous media. To …

[BOOK][B] Electrical and magnetic properties of rocks, soils and fluids

NJ Cassidy - 2009 - books.google.com
The ability of ground penetrating radar (GPR to provide 'real-time', highresolution,
stratigraphically related, cross-sectional images of the subsurface is the technique's unique …

Temperature effects on soil bulk dielectric permittivity measured by time domain reflectometry: A physical model

D Or, JM Wraith - Water Resources Research, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Near‐surface measurements of soil water content (θ) using time domain reflectometry (TDR)
may exhibit anomalous behavior in the presence of diurnal temperature (T) fluctuations …

Soil profile water content determination: Sensor accuracy, axial response, calibration, temperature dependence, and precision

SR Evett, JA Tolk, TA Howell - Vadose Zone Journal, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Although the neutron moisture meter (NMM) has served the need for accurate soil water
content determinations well, increasing regulatory burdens, including the requirement that …