Empirical temperature calibration of capacitance probes to measure soil water

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1931-1937

  Saito, Tadaomi ^a   Fujimaki, Haruyuki ^b   Yasuda, Hiroshi ^c   Inoue, Mitsuhiro ^c  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION EQUATIONS; CAPACITANCE PROBES; DIELECTRIC SENSORS; EMPIRICAL CALIBRATION; EMPIRICAL TEMPERATURES; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FOUR-PROBE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LINEAR RESPONSE; NONDESTRUCTIVE DETERMINATION; OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; PROBE-MODEL; REFERENCE TEMPERATURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER CONTENT; TEMPERATURE CALIBRATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECTS;

CALIBRATION; CAPACITANCE; EXPERIMENTS; PROBES; SENSORS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL EFFECTS; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER CONTENT;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CALIBRATION; LABORATORY METHOD; SENSOR; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL TEST; SOIL WATER; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 72449144593     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2008.0128     Document Type: Article

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