Improved calibration functions of three capacitance probes for the measurement of soil moisture in tropical soils

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 4858-4874

  Fares, Ali ^a   Abbas, Farhat ^a   Maria, Domingos ^b   Mair, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Sensor calibration; Single capacitance sensors; Soil water content; Tropical soils; Variable soil properties

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INSTRUMENTATION; SOIL; TROPIC CLIMATE;

CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SOIL; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 79957717633     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110504858     Document Type: Article

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