Determination of soil pore water salinity using an FDR sensor working at various frequencies up to 500 MHz

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 10890-10905

  Wilczek, Andrzej ^a   Szyplowska, Agnieszka ^a   Skierucha, Wojciech ^a   Cieśla, Jolanta ^a   Pichler, Viliam ^b   Janik, Grzegorz ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGROPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b Faculty of Forestry   (El Salvador)

^c WROC AW UNIVERSITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Complex dielectric permittivity; Dielectric spectroscopy; Frequency domain reflectometry; Salinity index approach; Soil salinity; Soil water content

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPLEX DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; METHODOLOGY; SALINITY; SALINITY INDEX APPROACH; SOIL; SOIL SALINITY; SOIL WATER CONTENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPLEX DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITY; DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; SALINITY INDEX APPROACH; SOIL SALINITY; SOIL WATER CONTENT;

CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, ANALYTICAL; DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LINEAR MODELS; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SALINITY; SOIL; WATER;

EID: 84865360943     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120810890     Document Type: Article

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