Application example: Monitoring soil moisture
The University of Göttingen intensive trial site in Ebergötzen
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Monitoring of soil water tension, soil water content and soil temperature on two different exposed, forested slopes.
Product | Parameter |
Tensiomark | Soil water tension, soil temperature |
Hydra probes | Soil water content |
enviLog data logger GPRS with automatic remote data transmission | |
Expansion modules SDI for convenient connection of the sensors (plug & play) | |
Fuel cell for independent energy supply |
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Department of Physical Geography
Geographical Institute
Goldschmidtstraße 5
Contact:
Dr. Jürgen Grotheer | jgrothe@gwdg.de |
Dr. Harold Hughes | hhughes@uni-goettingen.de |
Project leader:
Prof. Daniela Sauer |
Experimental set up
- Two test areas on a slope with different orientation (north, south)
- Measurement of water tension, water content and soil temperature with high spatial resolution
- Five parallel measurements at five depths on each surface
- Central enviLog data logger
- Automated remote data transmission via GPRS to a database server, and from there to the user PC
- Central energy supply through a fuel cell
- Installation and commissioning by ecoTech