Development of value selection method for choosing between alternative soil moisture sensors
Final ReportLand & Water Australia. 2008. Development of value selection method for choosing between alternative soil moisture sensors. [Online] (Updated June 12th, 2012)
Available at: http://lwa.gov.au/node/1145 [Accessed Thursday 4th of December 2014 12:33:29 AM ].
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The Australian Irrigation Technology Centre (AITC) identified in its 1993 [1] survey of irrigators the low level of adoption of soil moisture sensing devices (less than 7%), despite there being a number of soil water sensors which could be used by irrigators to help schedule irrigation. There is a large range of devices available commercially which make various claims about measuring and monitoring soil moisture status.
The operation of these devices is based on a number of different principles. One of the difficulties for any prospective purchaser of a system is to be able to understand exactly what is being measured, what this measurement can be used for and what it means in terms of scheduling irrigation.
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Author(s):J Cape
PublishedMarch 1997
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- Irrigation (442)
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- Technology (14)
- tools (14)
- AITC (1)
- scheduling (1)
- Soil moisture sensors (1)
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