Improvement and metrological validation of TDR methods for the estimation of static electrical conductivity

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1207-1215

  Cataldo, Andrea ^a   Piuzzi, Emanuele ^b   Cannazza, Giuseppe ^a   De Benedetto, Egidio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calibration; Conductivity measurements; Modeling; Soil measurements; Time domain reflectometry (TDR)

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MODELS; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SOILS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; METROLOGICAL PERFORMANCE; SOIL MEASUREMENT; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; TRANSMISSION LINE MODELING;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84950170711     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2038299     Document Type: Article

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