Transactions of the Second International Symposium on Soil Water Measurement Using Capacitance, Impedance and Time Domani Transmission

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Symposium 2007 PROGRAM (as of Oct. 17, 2007)Sunday, October 28, 2007 13:00 16:00Set up of the Technical Exhibit at USDA- ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Conference Room, 10300 Baltimore Ave., Bldg. 005, Beltsville, Maryland 20705, USA (Security Badges required)16:00 17:00Meeting of the Organizing Committee of Symposium 2007 (Security Badges required)Monday, October 29, 2007 07:30 10.00Breakfast and Registration of participants(Security Badges, Transactions of Symposium 2007, Program, Brochure, and other materials will be given to each individual participant)Official opening of Symposium 2007 (Conference, Posters and Technical Exhibit)10:00 10:30Official visit of TECHNICAL EXHIBIT and POSTERS10:30 11:00Official opening of ConferenceIntroductory remarks: Dr. Ioan Caton Paltineanu President, PALTIN International Inc., Laurel, Maryland 20707, USAWelcome Address: Dr. Phyllis E. Johnson Area Director, USDA ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland 20705, USA 11:00 12:00Invited Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ghassem R. Asrar Deputy Administrator USDA Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Maryland, USA, Email: [email protected] Lecture: "Natural Resources and Sustainable Agriculture in 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities"12:00 13:00Lunch Break13:00 16:001. STATE of THE ART:Moderators:1.1 "Real-Time Soil Water Dynamics Monitoring using Capacitance, Impedance and TDT A Global View and Critique"Ioan Caton Paltineanu, Paltin International Inc., 6309 Sandy St. Laurel, Maryland 20707, USA, Email: [email protected] Ioan Paltineanu, George Washington University, Washington D.C., Email: [email protected] 1.2 "Interplay of Soil Moisture, Conductivity, and Temperature in Soil Moisture Sensors A Theoretical Overview and Practical Implications"Jeffrey E. Campbell, Campbell Consulting LLC, 12 Spring Creek Dr., Horseshoe Bend, Idaho 8362, USA, Email: [email protected] 1.3 "Modeling water content estimation from electrical properties using the Hydra Probe in disturbed and undisturbed soil samples"Tairone P. Leao and Edmund Perfect - University of Tennessee, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, 1412 Circle Drive, 306 Earth & Planetary Sciences Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, USAPresenter: Tairone P. Leao Email: [email protected] 18:30 20:30Cocktail Reception and Dinner at the Moose Creek Steak House, Adirondack Room, Holiday Inn College Park, 10000 Baltimore Ave., College Park, Maryland 20740Sponsors: Agrilink Holdings Pty. Ltd., Thebarton, SA 5033, Australia, Automata Inc., Nevada City, California 95959, USA, and Sentek Pty Ltd., Stepney, SA 5069, AustraliaTuesday, October 30, 2007 08:30 09:00Breakfast 09:00 12:00State of THE ART (continued)Moderators: 1.4 "Accuracy and reproducibility of readings of several dielectric soil moisture sensors tested in the laboratory"J. Kucera1, F. Dolezal2, M. Vlckova2, M. Nechvatal2, T. Bayer2 & P. Prazak21Environmental Measuring Systems, Turisticka 5, 621 00 Brno, Czech Republic2Research Institute for Soil and Water Conservation, Zabovreska 250, 156 27 Praha 5 Zbraslav, Czech RepublicPresenter: Frantizek Dolezal - Research Institute for Soil and Water Conservation, Zabovreska 250, 156 27 Praha 5 Zbraslav, Czech Republic. Email: [email protected] 1.5 "Soil Moisture Spatial Patterns in a Uniform Paulownia Tree Stand"Michael H. Cosh - USDA-ARS-Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Rm. 104 Bldg 007 BARC-West, Beltsville, Maryland, USA, Email: [email protected] "Comparison of plot-scale average soil water contents with data from calibrated multisensor capacitance probes"R. Rowland1*, A. Guber1,2, Y. Pachepsky1, T. Gish31 USDA-ARS Environmental Microbial Safety Laboratory, 10300 Baltimore Ave., BARC-East, Bldg. 173, Beltsville MD, USA Email: [email protected] 2 Department of Environmental Science, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, USA3 USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, 10300 Baltimore Ave., BARC-West, Bldg. 007, Beltsville MD, USAPresenter: Randy Rowland - USDA-ARS Environmental Microbial Safety Laboratory, Beltsville Maryland, USA Email: [email protected]:00 13:00Lunch Break13:00 16:002 APPLICATIONS:Moderators:2.1 "Dual-frequency multi-sensor capacitance probes for monitoring water content and fertigation in drip irrigated watermelon"Ian McCann - University of Delaware Research and Education Center, 16483 County Seat Highway, Georgetown, Delaware, USA. Email: [email protected] James L. Starr (Retired) USDA, ARS, ANRI, HRSL, Beltsville, Maryland, USA, [email protected]: Ian McCann - University of Delaware Research and Education Center, 16483 County Seat Highway, Georgetown, Delaware, USA. Email: [email protected] "Irrigation Templates for Florida Citrus Using AquaSpy Multi-Sensor Capacitance Probes and Graphical SoftwareChet Townsend, Agrilink International Inc., 5400 Ft. Denaud Road, Fort Denaud, Florida 33935, USA Email: [email protected] 2.3 "Numerical Modelling and Experimental Verification of Plate Electrodes for Dielectric Measurement of Water Content in Porous Materials"Vaclav Kuraz, Jan Matousek, CTU in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Thakurova 7, 166 29 Prague 6, Czech RepublicPresenter: Vaclav Kuraz E-mail: [email protected] Wednesday, October 31, 2007 07:30 07:50Breakfast4. POSTER SESSION & TECHNICAL EXHIBIT visits and discussions only for participants at Symposium 200707:50 09:50POSTER SESSION:"The influence of minimum soil tillage systems on water conservation in soil"Teodor Rus, Petru Gus, Ileana Bogdan, Horea Cacovean, David C. Weindorf , Ioan Pacurar , and Marcel DirjaUniversity of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, 3-5, Manastur Street, Cluj-Napoca 400372, Romania [email protected] Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Stephenville, Texas, USAPresenter: Teodor Rusu - University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, 3-5, Manastur Street, Cluj-Napoca 400372, Romania Email: [email protected] 4.2 "Contact free capacitive soil moisture sensor and hand-held reader"Alain Izad. Ph.D., Electronics and MEMS sensor consultant, Cleveland, OHIO, 44022, USA Email: [email protected] 4.3 "The Precision Analysis on three Soil Moisture Auto-monitors applied in Henan Province"Ye LM1 Li YS] Wu ZG2 Yu GH2 Deng W1 Chen HB1 Wang YB2 Niu SJ2 Ye Jin2The Meteorological Institute of Henan, No. 110 Jinshui Road, Zhengzhou, Henan 450003, CETC Twenty-Seventh Institute, Zhengzhou, ChinaPresenter: Linmao Ye - The Meteorological Institute of Henan, Zhengzhou, Henan 450003, China Email: [email protected] 4.4 "The Application of FDR (Capacitance) Soil Moisture Sensors in Client/Server Network-monitoring System"Li Yu-sheng1,2 Shen Shuang-he1 Ye Lin-mao2 Fan Yu-lan2 Yang Hai-ying2 Xue Haizhong3Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China; The Meteorological Institute of Henan, Zhengzhou, Henan 450003, China; Zhengzhou AOYUAN Electronic Co. Ltd, Zhengzhou, Henan 450005, ChinaPresenter: Linmao Ye - The Meteorological Institute of Henan, Zhengzhou, Henan 450003, China Email: [email protected] 4.5 "Integrating Dielectric Constant-based Soil Moisture Sensors into Fully Automated Irrigation Control Systems"K B Dassanayake, N M Cooley, G M Dunn, D Chapman, H Malano, S K Ooi, K Salem4, B Beresford-Smith4, M Pham4 and G Thomas4Sc

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