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International Agrophysics
publisher:Institute of Agrophysics
Polish Academy of Sciences
Lublin, Poland
ISSN: 0236-8722


vol. 12, nr. 3 (1998)

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Determining bulk electrical conductivity of soil from attenuation of electromagnetic pulse
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Malicki M.A., Kokot J., Skierucha W.M.
Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Doświadczalna 4, 20-290 Lublin 27, P.O.Box 201, Poland

vol. 12 (1998), nr. 3, pp. 181-183
abstract 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.
keywords soil electrical conductivity, soil salinity, time domain reflectometry