Calibration Of Soil Moisture Measurement Using Pr2 Moisture Meter And Gravimetric-Based Approaches
Journal Title: Scientia Agriculturae - Year 2016, Vol 16, Issue 1
Abstract
The research study strongly focused on creating strong mechanism for measuring and evaluating soil moisture content comparing PR2 capacitance moisture meter and gravimetric approach. PR2 moisture meter shows a better performance accuracy of ± 6%; 0.06 m3/m3 and intercept a0 =1.8; indicating the field is heavy clay. It measures to 1000 mm depth with high precision; while realistic result could not be obtained from gravimetric method at this measuring depth. Therefore, effective soil moisture measuring, monitoring and evaluation can be achieved with PR2 moisture meter.
Authors and Affiliations
Olotu Yahaya, Omoregie Alexander, H. O Dirisu , A. I Alhassan
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- DOI 10.15192/PSCP.SA.2016.16.1.2630
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