A critical review of soil moisture measurement

SL SU, DN Singh, MS Baghini - Measurement, 2014 - Elsevier
Soil moisture content has paramount importance in dictating engineering, agronomic,
geological, ecological, biological and hydrological characteristics of the soil mass. Though …

A review of time domain reflectometry (TDR) applications in porous media

H He, K Aogu, M Li, J Xu, W Sheng, SB Jones… - Advances in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Time domain reflectometry (TDR) is the most widely used non-destructive method to
determine the water content of soils and other porous media. TDR equipment can be …

Oxygen-deficient WO 3− x@ TiO 2− x core–shell nanosheets for efficient photoelectrochemical oxidation of neutral water solutions

K Yuan, Q Cao, HL Lu, M Zhong, X Zheng… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Preparation of highly active, stable and earth-abundant photoanodes for water oxidation is
an important strategy to meet the demand of developing clean-energy technologies. In this …

Field measurement of suction, water content, and water permeability

A Tarantino, AM Ridley, DG Toll - Geotechnical and Geological …, 2008 - Springer
This paper presents a review of techniques for field measurement of suction, water content,
and water hydraulic conductivity (permeability). Main problems in the use of field …

Electrical properties of frozen saline clay and their relationship with unfrozen water content

J Liu, P Yang, ZJ Yang - Cold Regions Science and Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
The unfrozen water content has a significant impact on the mechanical and thermal
properties of saline soils during freezing, and their electrical properties measured by …

Estimation of bulk electrical conductivity in saline medium with contaminated lead solution through TDR coupled with machine learning

WT Hong, JS Lee, D Lee, HK Yoon - Process Safety and Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Time-domain reflectometry (TDR) has been used for the characterization of media; however,
the results of TDR tests significantly differ according to the types of solutions. The objective …

[HTML][HTML] A review of new TDR applications for measuring non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) in soils

A Comegna, G Severino, A Coppola - Environmental Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
The time domain reflectometry (TDR) technique is a geophysical method that allows, in a
time-varying electric field, the determination of dielectric permittivity and electrical …

Evaluation of a direct‐coupled time‐domain reflectometry for determination of soil water content and bulk electrical conductivity

RC Schwartz, SR Evett, SK Anderson… - Vadose Zone …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Core Ideas TDR‐315 sensors could be calibrated using conventional TDR methodologies.
Soil water content calibrations using conventional TDR and TDR‐315 were comparable …

Investigation of non-unique relationship between soil electrical conductivity and water content due to drying-wetting rate using TDR

CC Chung, CP Lin, SH Yang, JY Lin, CH Lin - Engineering Geology, 2019 - Elsevier
The characterization of the relationship between volumetric soil water content (θ) and bulk
electrical conductivity (EC)(or electrical resistivity) is of high interest in fields of engineering …

[HTML][HTML] Testing of a commercial vector network analyzer as low-cost TDR device to measure soil moisture and electrical conductivity

D Moret-Fernández, F Lera, B Latorre, J Tormo… - Catena, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) is a non-destructive technique to determine the
soil apparent dielectric constant, ε a, the volumetric water content, θ, and bulk electrical …