Heated optical fiber for distributed soil-moisture measurements: A lysimeter experiment

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Ciocca, Francesco ^a   Lunati, Ivan ^b   van de Giesen, Nick ^c   Parlange, Marc B ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; CALIBRATED MODEL; CONDUCTIVE MEDIA; DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSING SYSTEMS; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE HEATERS; FIBER CABLES; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; HEAT PULSE; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LOAM SOILS; LYSIMETER EXPERIMENTS; SOIL RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE INCREMENT; TIME CORRECTION; VOLUMETRIC WATER CONTENT; WATER CONTENT PROFILES;

CABLES; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HEAT RESISTANCE; LYSIMETERS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; MOISTURE METERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PULSE GENERATORS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; WATER CONTENT;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CALIBRATION; COOLING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LOAMY SAND; LYSIMETER; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROFILE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VOLUME; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84870411496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2011.0199     Document Type: Article

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