Remote soil moisture data collection in southern Alberta

尽管土壤湿度观测能够显著提高农业用水效率，并显著提高产量和产品质量，但它们在南阿尔伯塔省的灌溉用水管理中仍未得到充分利用。Jadler Industries和Random Acronym是用于远程现场数据监测的FieldTracker遥测设备的生产商。FieldTracker专为需要实时观察和报告流量、水位、温度和水化学等变量的工业作业而设计。目前，贾德勒工业公司和随机缩略语公司正在将天气和土壤湿度传感器整合到一个针对阿尔伯塔省南部农业工业的软件包中。土壤水分含量是通过分析电流通过土壤的行为来间接测量的。在转化为与农民相关的信息之前，基础观测需要多次修正。莱斯布里奇学院建议通过一组实验土壤箱的室内实验来帮助贾德勒工业公司和随机缩略词公司解决这个问题。实验的目的是回答以下问题：1。为提供准确可靠的土壤水分含量输出，每个选定的传感器需要什么级别的校正和校准？VWC数据到灌溉信息的校准和转换是否可以用时间序列分析方法代替实验室实验来完成？

Despite the ability of soil moisture observations to significantly increase agricultural water use efficiency and provide important increases in yield and product quality, they remain under-utilised in irrigation watermanagement in Southern Alberta. Jadler Industries and Random Acronym are producers of the FieldTracker Telemetry Device for remote field data monitoring. The FieldTracker was designed for industrial operations that require real-time observation and reporting of variables such as flow rate, water level, temperature, andwater chemistry. Currently, Jadler Industries and Random Acronym are incorporating weather and soilmoisture sensors into a package aimed at the agricultural industry in Southern Alberta. Soil moisture content is measured indirectly by analyzing the behaviour of electric currents through soils. The base observations requiremultiple corrections before being translated to information that is relevant for farmers. Lethbridge Collegeproposes to assist Jadler Industries and Random Acronym with this problem through an indoor experiment on aset of experimental soil bins. The goal of the experiment is to answer the following questions:1.What level of correction and calibration is required for each of the selected sensors to provide an accurate and reliable output of soil moisture content?2.Can calibration and transformation of VWC data to irrigation information be accomplished with a time seriesanalysis method instead of laboratory experiment?