Determining bulk electrical conductivity of soil from attenuation of electromagnetic pulse
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Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Doświadczalna 4, 20-290 Lublin 27, P.O.Box 201, Poland
Acceptance date: 1998-05-18
Int. Agrophys. 1998, 12(3): 181-183
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Bulk electrical conductivity of soil, ecB determined using attenuation-based TDR measurements disagreed with reference data, ecB determined using the four-electrode reference method. To explain this discrepancy it was assumed that there exist more reasons other than the soil ecB that cause the pulse attenuation. Fitting a polynomial to the ecB (ecBTD^ relationship made the TDR attenuation-based method applicable for the determination of the soil bulk electrical conductivity.