An improved reflectometric method for soil moisture measurement exploiting an innovative triple-short calibration

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2747-2754

  Piuzzi, E ^a   Cataldo, A ^b   Cannazza, G ^b   De Benedetto, E ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calibration; modeling; moisture measurement; soil measurements; time domain reflectometry (TDR)

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; DIELECTRIC CHARACTERIZATION; DIELECTRIC MIXING MODEL; DIELECTRIC MODELS; EMPIRICAL CALIBRATION; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; LOW COSTS; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MODELING; MOISTURE CONTENTS; MOISTURE MEASUREMENT; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; SOIL MEASUREMENTS; SOIL MOISTURE MEASUREMENT; THREE-ROD; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY TECHNIQUES; WAVE FORMS;

CALIBRATION; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MEASUREMENTS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; MOISTURE METERS; PROBES; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; SOLS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 77956757922     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2010.2045445     Document Type: Article

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