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Monitoring Networks

Project Overview 

Five monitoring stations are installed at the four edges of the four quadrants, with stations 136 and 138 installed side by side at the edge between quadrants 1 and 4 (Fig. 1 and Fig. 2b). Temporary station 125 is intended to be used only if paddock work requires removal of the other stations. All stations except 138 have 12 hydra-probes inserted into the soil at 5 cm increments down to 60 cm. Station 138 has 6 hydra-probes installed into the soil at 5 cm increments down to 30 cm. These hydra-probes have been continuously measuring soil temperature, moisture, electrical conductivity and dielectric constant at a 20-minute sampling step.

Monitoring Network Equipment

Monitoring Station schematic
PLEASE NOTE: The following data sets should be acknowledged According to the following:

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Shen, X., Walker, J.P., Ye, N., Wu, X., F. Brakhasi, Boopathi, N., Zhu, L., Yeo, I.Y., Kim, E., Kerr, Y., & Jackson, T. (2022). Evaluation of tau-omega model over bare and wheat-covered flat and periodic soil surfaces at P- and L-band. Remote Sensing of Environment, 273, 112960.

Shen, X., Walker, J.P., Ye, N., Wu, X., F. Brakhasi, Boopathi, N., Zhu, L., Yeo, I.Y., Kim, E., Kerr, Y., & Jackson, T. (2022). Impact of random and periodic surface roughness on P- and L-band radiometry. Remote Sensing of Environment, 269, 112825.

Shen, X., Walker, J.P., Ye, N., Wu, X., Boopathi, N., Yeo, I.Y., Zhang, L., & Zhu, L. (2021). Soil moisture retrieval depth of P- and L-band radiometry: predictions and observations. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 59, 6814-6822.