Soil Water Sensors for Agriculture - Applications and Usefulness
Webinar Details
When:
Feb 11, 2016 11:30 am US/Eastern
Length: 01:03 (hh:mm)
Advance Registration NOT required.
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Presenter(s):
- Steven R. Evett, Senior Research Soil Scientist, Lead Scientist, Soil and Water Management Research Unit Conservation & Production Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Bushland, TX
CEU Credits/Certificate Offered:
- Certificate of Participation
- Conservation Planner (CP) - 1 hour Conservation Planning Credit
Virtual Event Format:
Group Viewing Available:
Participants will learn how to best deploy and use soil water sensors for irrigation water management.
Soil water sensors have been used for irrigation and water management in agriculture for many years, but with limited success in many cases. This presentation will cover the types of sensors available and explanations, with examples, of how sensor type, calibration, installation and telemetry options affect the usefulness and representativeness of sensors in given soils.
This webinar will provide guidance for using the four main sensor technologies: neutron thermalization, resistance blocks, capacitance sensing (frequency domain sensing), and travel time sensing (time domain reflectometry and time domain transmission modes).
Examples will show how to best deploy and use sensors and what a user can expect from each technology in terms of accuracy, stability and representativeness of the readings. A discussion of using knowledge gained from dynamic data, without regard to absolute accuracy, will be included.
This webinar is presented by the USDA NRCS West National Technology Support Center.
View the January 14, 2016, companion webinar: Soil Water Sensors for Agriculture - Theory and Issues.
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