A new wireless underground network system for continuous monitoring of soil water contents

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Ritsema, Coen J ^a,b   Kuipers, Henk ^c   Kleiboer, Leon ^d   Van Den Elsen, Erik ^a   Oostindie, Klaas ^a   Wesseling, Jan G ^a   Wolthuis, Jan Willem ^d   Havinga, Paul ^d,e  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^c Pentanovation   (Netherlands)

^d Ambient Systems BV   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA TRANSFER; MONITORING; SOIL MOISTURE; WEBSITES;

CONTINUOUS MONITORING; DATA COLLECTION; SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES; SOIL WATER CONTENT; TECHNICAL ASPECTS; UNDERGROUND NETWORKS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS; WIRELESS EMBEDDED NETWORKS;

GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS);

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INNOVATION; SENSOR; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL WATER;

EID: 79551675885     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007071     Document Type: Article

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