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Heated Distributed Temperature Sensing for Field Scale Soil Moisture Monitoring


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Abstract

Characterizing both spatial and temporal soil moisture (θ) dynamics at site scales is difficult with existing technologies. To address this shortcoming, we developed a distributed soil moisture sensing system that employs a distributed temperature sensing system to monitor thermal response at 2 m intervals along the length of a buried cable which is subjected to heat pulses. The cable temperature response to heating, which is strongly dependent on soil moisture, was empirically related to colocated, dielectric-based θ measurements at three locations. Spatially distributed, and temporally continuous estimates of θ were obtained in dry conditions (θ ≤ 0.31) using this technology (root mean square error [RMSE] = 0.016), but insensitivity of the instrument response curve adversely affected accuracy under wet conditions (RMSE = 0.050).

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Striegl, A. M. (2018). Heated Distributed Temperature Sensing for Field Scale Soil Moisture Monitoring, HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/fb92ab29fba44539ad39ab078d300159

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