Development of an angular scanning system for sensing vertical profiles of soil electrical conductivity

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 757-767

  Adamchuk, V I ^a   Mat Su, A S ^a,b   Eigenberg, R A ^c   Ferguson, R B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c U S MEAT ANIMAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Angular scanning; Apparent electrical conductivity; Electromagnetic induction; On the go soils sensing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE; ANGULAR SCANNING; ANGULAR-SCANNING METHOD; APPARENT ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; COMPLEX MODEL; CONTINUOUS TRANSITIONS; DATA ACQUISITION SOFTWARES; EMI SENSORS; FIELD COMPUTER; ILL-CONDITIONED; INVERSION PROCEDURE; MATRIX; NEBRASKA; ON-THE-GO SOILS SENSING; PNEUMATIC ACTUATOR; SENSOR SYSTEMS; SHALLOW SOILS; SITE-SPECIFIC; SOIL CONDITIONS; SOIL ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; SOIL PROFILES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SYSTEM OF LINEAR EQUATIONS; UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN; VERTICAL MODES; VERTICAL PROFILE;

ALL WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INDUCTANCE MEASUREMENT; PNEUMATICS; ROTATION; SCANNING; SENSORS; SOILS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; PROBE; SENSOR; SHALLOW SOIL; SOIL PROFILE; SPATIAL VARIATION; VERTICAL PROFILE;

NEBRASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959774661     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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