Measurement of soil water content in a hyper-arid environment using time-domain reflectometry sensors

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 3911-3920

  Ishizuka, Masahide ^a,b   Mikami, Masao ^c  

^a WAKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hyper arid environment; Sensor calibration; Soil water content; Temperature dependency; Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR)

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; REFLECTOMETERS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WATER;

HYPER-ARID ENVIRONMENT; SENSOR CALIBRATION; SOIL WATER CONTENT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCY; TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (TDR);

SOILS;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; SOIL WATER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

EID: 27744442822     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.5989     Document Type: Article

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