Combined estimation of effective electrical conductivity and permittivity for soil monitoring

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Brovelli, A ^a,b   Cassiani, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS-SOILS; CRITICAL COMPONENT; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXTENDED MODEL; FITTING PARAMETERS; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS; GRAIN SURFACE; KEY FEATURE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; NEW MODEL; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PORE WATERS; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; SOIL MONITORING; SOIL PARAMETERS; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL SALINITY; SOIL SALINIZATION; SOIL SAMPLE; SOIL TEXTURES;

CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GEOPHYSICS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; SOILS; TEXTURES;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOPHYSICS; LABORATORY METHOD; MAPPING METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MOISTURE CONTENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMITTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SALINIZATION; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL TEXTURE; SOIL TYPE; SURVEY;

EID: 84860389940     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010487     Document Type: Article

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