Automatic irrigation system on sensing soil moisture content

Soil Moisture Content

The assessment of soil moisture content and surface roughness from remotely sensed data is of primary importance for improving agricultural techniques of conservation farming such as yield forecasts, scheduling irrigations, fertilization. SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) remotely sensed data may provide a powerful tool for indirectly retrieving these agricultural surface parameters over large are...

Optimizing Soil Moisture Uniformity and Irrigation Management

This research is a study on the relationship of irrigation water treatments and soil moisture distribution uniformity (DU). Soil moisture distribution was based on long-term data sets that were collected during wet and dry soil conditions (from permanent wilting point to field capacity) using a novel electromagnetic sensor-based platform moving inside subsurface horizontal access-tubes. The irr...

Active Passive Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture

1.0 INTRODUCTION Numerous studies have shown the influence of soil moisture on the feedbacks between landsurface and climate, which in turn affect the dynamics of the atmosphere boundary layer and have a direct relationship to weather and global climate (Shukla and Mintz, 1982). Chang, et al., 1991 have shown the influence of spatial variations of soil moisture and vegetation on the development...

Soil Moisture Sensing with Microwave Radiometers

Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture

Because of the large contrast between the dielectric constant of liquid water and that of dry soil at microwave wavelength, there is a strong dependence of the thermal emission and radar backscatter from the soil on its moisture content. This dependence provides a means for the remote sensing of the moisture content in a surface layer approximately 5 cm thick. The feasibility of these technique...