Heated Distributed Temperature Sensing for Field Scale Soil Moisture Monitoring

Ground Water

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 340-347

  Striegl, Arlen M ^a,b   Loheide II, Steven P ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b GOLDER ASSOCIATES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIED CABLES; CO-LOCATED; DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSING; DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSING SYSTEMS; DRY CONDITION; FIELD-SCALE SOIL MOISTURE; HEAT PULSE; MOISTURE SENSING; RESPONSE CURVES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; THERMAL RESPONSE; WET CONDITIONS;

CABLES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

SOIL MOISTURE;

WATER;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEATING; MOISTURE CONTENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEAT; METHODOLOGY; SOIL;

CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOT TEMPERATURE; SOIL; WATER;

EID: 84860363687     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2012.00928.x     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Booth, E.G., and S.P. Loheide. 2012. Hydroecological model predictions indicate wetter and more diverse soil water regimes and vegetation types following floodplain restoration. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences. DOI: 10.1029/2011JG001831.
2. Booth, E.G., and S.P. Loheide II. 2011. Comparing surface effective saturation and depth-to-water-level as predictors of plant composition in a restored floodplain wetland. Ecohydrology 4. DOI: 10.1002/eco.250.
3. Booth, E.G., and S.P. Loheide II. 2010. Effects of evapotranspiration partitioning, plant water stress response and topsoil removal on the soil moisture regime of a floodplain wetland: Implications for restoration. Hydrological Processes 24, no. 20: 2934-2946. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7707.
4. Booth, E.G., S.P. Loheide II, and R.I. Hansis. 2009. Postsettlement alluvium removal: A novel floodplain restoration technique (Wisconsin). Ecological Restoration 27: 136-139. DOI: 10.3368/er.27.2.136.
5. Bristow, K.L., R.D. White, and G.J. Kluitenberg. 1994. Comparison of single and dual probes for measuring soil thermal-properties with transient heating. Australian Journal of Soil Research 32, no. 3: 447-464.
6. Bristow, K.L., G.S. Campbell, and K. Calissendorff. 1993. Test of a heat-pulse probe for measuring changes in soil-water content. Soil Science Society of America Journal 57, no. 4: 930-934.
7. Campbell, G.S., C. Calissendorff, and J.H. Williams. 1991. Probe for measuring soil specific-heat using a heat-pulse method. Soil Science Society of America Journal 55, no. 1: 291-293.
8. Cardenas-Lailhacar, B., M.D. Dukes, and G.L. Miller. 2008. Sensor-based automation of irrigation on bermudagrass, during wet weather conditions. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering-Asce 134, no. 2: 120-128. DOI: 10.1061/(asce)0733-9437(2008)134:2(120).
9. Cohen, Y. 1991. Determination of orchard water requirement by a combined trunk sap flow and meteorological approach. Irrigation Science 12, no. 2: 93-98.
10. de Vries, D. 1952. A nonstationary method for determining thermal conductivity of soil in situ. Soil Science 73: 83-89.
11. Dunne, T., and R.D. Black. 1970. An experimental investigation of runoff production in permeable soils. Water Resources Research 6, no. 2: 478-490.
12. Entekhabi, D., I. Rodriguez Iturbe, and F. Castelli. 1996. Mutual interaction of soil moisture state and atmospheric processes. Journal of Hydrology 184, no. 1-2: 3-17.
13. Freifeld, B.M., S. Finsterle, T.C. Onstott, and P. Toole. 2008. Ground surface temperature reconstructions: Using in situ estimates for thermal conductivity acquired with a fiber-optic distributed thermal perturbation sensor. Geophysical Research Letters 35, no. 14: 1-5 DOI: L1430910.1029/2008gl034762.
14. Fritton, D., W. Busscher, and J. Alpert. 1974. An inexpensive but durable thermal conductivity probe for field use. Soil Science Society of America Proceedings 38: 854-855.
15. Khire, M.V., C.H. Benson, and P.J. Bosscher. 1997. Water balance modeling of earthen final covers. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 123, no. 8: 744-754. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(1997)123: 8(744).
16. Knox, J.C. 2006. Floodplain sedimentation in the Upper Mississippi Valley: Natural versus human accelerated. Geomorphology 79, no. 3-4: 286-310. DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph. 2006.06.031.
17. Knox, J.C. 1972. Valley alluviation in southwestern Wisconsin. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 62: 401-410.
18. Krzeminska, D.M., S.C. Steele-Dunne, T.A. Bogaard, M.M. Rutten, P. Sailhac, and Y. Geraud. 2011. High-resolution temperature observations to monitor soil thermal properties as a proxy for soil moisture condition in clay-shale landslide. Hydrological Processes 25. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7980.
19. Olmanson, O.K., and T.E. Ochsner. 2006. Comparing ambient temperature effects on heat pulse and time domain reflectometry soil water content measurements. Vadose Zone Journal 5, no. 2: 751-756. DOI: 10.2136/vzj2005.0114.
20. Perzlmaier, S., K. Straber, T. Strobl, and M. Aufleger. 2006. Integral seepage monitoring on open channel embankment dams by the DFOT heat pulse method. In 74th Annual Meeting, International Committee on Large Dams. Spain: Barcelona.
21. Robinson, D.A., C.S. Campbell, J.W. Hopmans, B.K. Hornbuckle, S.B. Jones, R. Knight, F. Ogden, J. Selker, and O. Wendroth. 2008. Soil moisture measurement for ecological and hydrological watershed-scale observatories: A review. Vadose Zone Journal 7, no. 1: 358-389. DOI: 10. 2136/vzj2007.0143.
22. Rodriguez-Iturbe, I., and A. Porporato. 2005. Ecohydrology of Water-Controlled Ecosystems: Soil Moisture and Plant Dynamics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
23. Sayde, C., C. Gregory, M. Gil-Rodriguez, N. Tufillaro, S. Tyler, N. van de Giesen, M. English, R. Cuenca, and J.S. Selker. 2010. Feasibility of soil moisture monitoring with heated fiber optics. Water Resources Research 46, no. 8. DOI: W0620110.1029/2009wr007846.
24. Schmugge, T.J., W.P. Kustas, J.C. Ritchie, T.J. Jackson, and A. Rango. 2002. Remote sensing in hydrology. Advances in Water Resources 25, no. 8-12: 1367-1385.
25. Selker, J.S., L. Thevenaz, H. Huwald, A. Mallet, W. Luxemburg, N.V. de Giesen, M. Stejskal, J. Zeman, M. Westhoff, and M.B. Parlange. 2006. Distributed fiber-optic temperature sensing for hydrologic systems. Water Resources Research 42, no. 12. DOI: W1220210.1029/2006wr005326.
26. Shiozawa, S., and G.S. Campbell. 1990. Soil thermal conductivity. Remote Sensing Reviews 5, no. 1: 301-310.
27. Stafford, J.V. 2000. Implementing precision agriculture in the 21st century. Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research 76, no. 3: 267-275.
28. Steele-Dunne, S.C., M.M. Rutten, D.M. Krzeminska, M. Hausner, S.W. Tyler, J. Selker, T.A. Bogaard, and N.C.V. de Giesen. 2010. Feasibility of soil moisture estimation using passive distributed temperature sensing. Water Resources Research 46, no. 12. DOI: W0353410.1029/2009wr008272.
29. Striegl, A.M. 2011. Development and field implementation of a distributed soil moisture sensor using heated fiber optics. M.S. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.
30. Tarara, J.M., and J.M. Ham. 1997. Measuring soil water content in the laboratory and field with dual-probe heat-capacity sensors. Agronomy Journal 89, no. 4: 535-542.
31. Tyler, S.W., J.S. Selker, M.B. Hausner, C.E. Hatch, T. Torgersen, C.E. Thodal, and S.G. Schladow. 2009. Environmental temperature sensing using Raman spectra DTS fiber-optic methods. Water Resources Research 45: W00D23. DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007052.
32. Weiss, J.D. 2003. Using fiber optics to detect moisture intrusion into a landfill cap consisting of a vegetative soil barrier. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 53, no. 9: 1130-1148.
33. Westhoff, M.C., H.H.G. Savenije, W.M.J. Luxemburg, G.S. Stelling, N.C. van de Giesen, J.S. Selker, L. Pfister, and S. Uhlenbrook. 2007. A distributed stream temperature model using high resolution temperature observations. Hydrology and Earth Systems Science 11, no. 4: 1469-1480.
34. Zhang, N.Q., M.H. Wang, and N. Wang. 2002. Precision agriculture-a worldwide overview. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 36, no. 2-3: 113-132.