Wideband antenna for underground Soil Scout transmission

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 517-519

  Tiusanen, M Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Microstrip antennas; Soil; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ELLIPTICAL MONOPOLE ANTENNA; HIGH PERMITTIVITY; MOISTURE CONTENTS; MOISTURE RANGE; PROTOTYPE DESIGNS; RADIATION EFFICIENCY; SINGLE-ENDED; SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT; TELEMETRY; WIDEBAND ANTENNA;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SOIL MOISTURE; TELEMETERING EQUIPMENT;

MONOPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 71449117425     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2006.887549     Document Type: Article

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