Estimating water content from electrical conductivity measurements with short time-domain reflectometry probes

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 478-482

  Persson, Magnus ^a   Haridy, Sahar ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS; PERMITTIVITY; REFLECTOMETERS; SAND; WATER;

TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (TDR);

SOILS;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; SOIL WATER; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 0037334464     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2003.4780     Document Type: Article

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