Manufacturing Simple and Inexpensive Soil Surface Temperature and Gravimetric Water Content Sensors

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December 21st, 2019

DOI :

10.3791/60308-v

December 21st, 2019

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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

Summary

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Soil Sensors

Temperature Measurement

Moisture Content

Soil Surface

Thermocouple Cable

Microclimate Assessment

Soil Moisture Regulation

Ecosystem Activity

Welding Wires

Soldering Technique

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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