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values of soil samples was noticed, which was attributed to the evaporation of<br />

water from wet soil samples.<br />

The applied TDR probes were standard Easy Test, Ltd. [29] two wire probes<br />

enhanced with the electronics (microcontroller, digital output temperature sensor,<br />

analog-to-digital converter and serial interface) for independent measurement of<br />

the probe temperature and soil electrical conductivity. The construction of such a<br />

“smart sensor” in presented in Fig. 20.<br />

Fig. 20.<br />

Block diagram of the TDR probe with the electronics for soil electrical conductivity and<br />

temperature measurements<br />

The electrical conductivity of the soil sample, EC a , measured from the voltage<br />

drop on the reference resistor R1 connected in series with the soil equivalent<br />

resistor R2. Low frequency conductivity, EC a , of the soil samples were<br />

determined from the formula: EC a =C/R2, where C is a calibration constant<br />

determined individually for each TDR probe by the measurement in NaCl<br />

solution of known conductivities.<br />

The source voltage for electrical conductivity measurement is a square wave,<br />

generated by the microcontroller, of 100 kHz frequency that does not polarize the<br />

electrode-soil system, the inductance L is for separation of high frequency TDR<br />

signal from much lower frequency square wave and the capacitance C2 >>C1 is a<br />

DC block between the electrode-soil system and the measurement circuitry.<br />

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