Mobile TDR for geo-referenced measurement of soil water content and electrical conductivity

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 8, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 213-223

  Thomsen, Anton ^a   Schelde, Kirsten ^a   Drøscher, Per ^a   Steffensen, Flemming ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Mobile TDR measurements; Sampling strategy; Soil electrical conductivity; Soil mapping; Soil moisture; Soil texture; TDR probe

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER;

EID: 35948929909     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-007-9041-1     Document Type: Article

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