North Dakota State University: Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Dept.

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Our project titled the "Effect of Optimal Water Management for Sustainable and Profitable Crop Production and Improvement of Water Quality in Red River Valley" is funded through the Sustainable Agricultural Research & Education (SARE) grant.

Friday, June 5, 2015

Measuring Soil Moisture in the Field

The Stevens Hydra Probe II soil moisture and salinity sensors are used to measure soil moisture, electrical conductivity and temperature at 7 depths below the surface, i.e., 5 cm, 15 cm, 30 cm, 45 cm, 60 cm, 75 cm and 90 cm. The soil moisture and other parameters are measured at two sites, on the tile and in-between tiles.

ABEN freshman Connor Yaggie is pushing the sensors into the soil and PhD. student Debjit Roy is taking soil samples along the sensors.

Campbell Scientific CR1000 datalogger is used to collect data. A 12V battery with a 10W solar panel provide power consumed by the datalogger and sensors.

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