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Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity Measurement Using Dielectric Water
Potential Sensor and Soil Moisture Sensor
Fatinah Binti Aplop
Supervisor: Dr Sunny Goh Eng Giap
Bachelor of Technology (Environment)
School of Ocean Engineering
Universiti Malaysia Terengganu
Soil is chemically weathered rock mixed with organic and living matter on the earth
surface. There are a number of important soil properties such as structure,
consistency, texture, colour, chemical and physical properties. Measurement of
hydraulic conductivity, can be measured by one of the model such as HYPROP. For
measuring on unsaturated hydraulic conductivity, two sensors will be transferred to
the computer. First, dielectric water potential sensor for measuring water potential of
the soil. Second, soil moisture sensor to measure volumetric water content. The two
sensor will be connected to the data logger and the data will be shown in the
computer. FORTRAN is one of the software will be used for the data. The data will be
recorded for the time versus soil moisture content.
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