Extending the limits of a capacitive soil-water-content measurement

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2240-2244

  Chang, Zu Yao ^a   Iliev, Blagoy P ^a,b   de Groot, J Frank ^a   Meijer, Gerard C M ^a,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Martil Instruments ^*  (Netherlands)

^c SensArt   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capacitance measurement; Conductivity measurement; Dielectric measurements; Impedance; Impedance measurement; Measurement; Moisture; Moisture measurement; Permittivity; Permittivity measurement; Soil; Soil measurements; Water

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT;

DIELECTRIC MEASUREMENT; MOISTURE MEASUREMENT; SOIL-WATER-CONTENT MEASUREMENT;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 37249011229     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.908317     Document Type: Article

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