Manufacturing Simple and Inexpensive Soil Surface Temperature and Gravimetric Water Content Sensors
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December 21st, 2019
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December 21st, 2019
•Armin Howell1, Colin Tucker1, Edmund E. Grote1, Maik Veste2,3, Jayne Belnap1, Gerhard Kast4, Bettina Weber5,6, Sasha C. Reed1
1Southwest Biological Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 2Centre for Energy Technology Brandenburg, 3Institute of Environmental Sciences, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, 4Umweltanalytische Produkte GmbH, 5Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Graz, 6Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Chapters in this video
0:04
Title
0:52
Thermocouple Cable Preparation
2:09
Soil Moisture Cable Preparation
3:58
Sensor Head Terminal Strip Modification
4:35
Sensor Head Assembly
6:28
Results: Representative Sensor Calibrations and Temperature and Gravimetric Water Content (GWC) Measurements
7:47
Conclusion
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