Temperature-Corrected Calibration of GS3 and TEROS-12 Soil Water Content Sensors. Nasta, P., Coccia, F., Lazzaro, U., Bogena, H. R., Huisman, J. A., Sica, B., Mazzitelli, C., Vereecken, H., & Romano, N. Sensors, 24(3):952, February, 2024. ![Temperature-Corrected Calibration of GS3 and TEROS-12 Soil Water Content Sensors [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex The continuous monitoring of soil water content is commonly carried out using low-frequency capacitance sensors that require a site-specific calibration to relate sensor readings to apparent dielectric bulk permittivity (Kb) and soil water content (θ). In fine-textured soils, the conversion of Kb to θ is still challenging due to temperature effects on the bound water fraction associated with clay mineral surfaces, which is disregarded in factory calibrations. Here, a multi-point calibration approach accounts for temperature effects on two soils with medium to high clay content. A calibration strategy was developed using repacked soil samples in which the Kb-θ relationship was determined for temperature (T) steps from 10 to 40 °C. This approach was tested using the GS3 and TEROS-12 sensors (METER Group, Inc. Pullman, WA, USA; formerly Decagon Devices). Kb is influenced by T in both soils with contrasting T-Kb relationships. The measured data were fitted using a linear function θ = aKb + b with temperature-dependent coefficients a and b. The slope, a(T), and intercept, b(T), of the loam soil were different from the ones of the clay soil. The consideration of a temperature correction resulted in low RMSE values, ranging from 0.007 to 0.033 cm3 cm−3, which were lower than the RMSE values obtained from factory calibration (0.046 to 0.11 cm3 cm−3). However, each experiment was replicated only twice using two different sensors. Sensor-to-sensor variability effects were thus ignored in this study and will be systematically investigated in a future study. Finally, the applicability of the proposed calibration method was tested at two experimental sites. The spatial-average θ from a network of GS3 sensors based on the new calibration fairly agreed with the independent area-wide θ from the Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor (CRNS). This study provided a temperature-corrected calibration to increase the accuracy of commercial sensors, especially under dry conditions, at two experimental sites.
@article{nasta_temperature-corrected_2024,
title = {Temperature-{Corrected} {Calibration} of {GS3} and {TEROS}-12 {Soil} {Water} {Content} {Sensors}},
volume = {24},
copyright = {https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
issn = {1424-8220},
url = {https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/3/952},
doi = {10.3390/s24030952},
abstract = {The continuous monitoring of soil water content is commonly carried out using low-frequency capacitance sensors that require a site-specific calibration to relate sensor readings to apparent dielectric bulk permittivity (Kb) and soil water content (θ). In fine-textured soils, the conversion of Kb to θ is still challenging due to temperature effects on the bound water fraction associated with clay mineral surfaces, which is disregarded in factory calibrations. Here, a multi-point calibration approach accounts for temperature effects on two soils with medium to high clay content. A calibration strategy was developed using repacked soil samples in which the Kb-θ relationship was determined for temperature (T) steps from 10 to 40 °C. This approach was tested using the GS3 and TEROS-12 sensors (METER Group, Inc. Pullman, WA, USA; formerly Decagon Devices). Kb is influenced by T in both soils with contrasting T-Kb relationships. The measured data were fitted using a linear function θ = aKb + b with temperature-dependent coefficients a and b. The slope, a(T), and intercept, b(T), of the loam soil were different from the ones of the clay soil. The consideration of a temperature correction resulted in low RMSE values, ranging from 0.007 to 0.033 cm3 cm−3, which were lower than the RMSE values obtained from factory calibration (0.046 to 0.11 cm3 cm−3). However, each experiment was replicated only twice using two different sensors. Sensor-to-sensor variability effects were thus ignored in this study and will be systematically investigated in a future study. Finally, the applicability of the proposed calibration method was tested at two experimental sites. The spatial-average θ from a network of GS3 sensors based on the new calibration fairly agreed with the independent area-wide θ from the Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor (CRNS). This study provided a temperature-corrected calibration to increase the accuracy of commercial sensors, especially under dry conditions, at two experimental sites.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
urldate = {2024-11-26},
journal = {Sensors},
author = {Nasta, Paolo and Coccia, Francesca and Lazzaro, Ugo and Bogena, Heye R. and Huisman, Johan A. and Sica, Benedetto and Mazzitelli, Caterina and Vereecken, Harry and Romano, Nunzio},
month = feb,
year = {2024},
pages = {952},
}
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