A FDR sensor for measuring complex soil dielectric permittivity in the 10-500 MHz frequency range

Sensors

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3314-3329

  Skierucha, Wojciech ^a   Wilczek, Andrzej ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGROPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dielectric permittivity; Dielectric spectroscopy; FDR; Soil moisture; Soil salinity; TDR

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; FDR; FDR (FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY); SOIL SALINITY; TDR; TDR (TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY); VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZERS;

DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS; PERMITTIVITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SOIL MOISTURE;

SENSORS;

EID: 77951737257     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s100403314     Document Type: Article

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