Quick Measurement of Moisture Content of Soil

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...

Measurement of Available Soil Moisture

Assessing Relation of Soil Hydrophobicity and Soil Water Content and Determining Threshold Moisture of Organic Soil Samples

Soil water content is the most effective factor associated with the hydrophobic and hydrophilic changes in a soil. Water repellency in soils, is not a permanent feature; it can be reached in the dry season and reduced or eliminated in the wet season It can be said that in terms of moisture, there is a critical region that is defined as the threshold moisture content, where in lower moisture, th...

A scheme for calculating soil moisture content

A scheme for calculating soil moisture content by using routine weather data K. Z. Shang, S. G. Wang, Y. X. Ma, Z. J. Zhou, J. Y. Wang, H. L. Liu, and Y. Q. Wang Gansu Key Laboratory of Arid Climatic Change and Reducing Disaster, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P.R. China National Meteorological Center, CMA, Beijing 100081, P.R. China Chinese Academy of Mete...

Soil Moisture Measurement in Heterogeneous Terrain

Reliable soil moisture measurement over large areas is much needed for both hydrologic modelling and remote sensing applications. For collecting such data, portable electronic sensors offer a practical alternative to gravimetric measurements. The conversion of the measured electrical output to soil moisture is nonetheless a non-trivial task as it depends on soil type and temperature. In this st...