Smart TDR Sensors for Moisture Measurement
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2022) | Viewed by 7378
Special Issue Editors
Interests: time domain reflectometry; material moisture; apparent permittivity; non-invasive sensors
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Interests: sensing techniques; application of artificial senses in environmental engineering; bioindication and biomonitoring; water quality; moisture properties of porous materials; environmental modeling
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Dear Colleagues,
Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) plays a significant role among the techniques of moisture detection in porous media. It is an electric technique applied for determining the apparent permittivity of porous materials by the measurement of electromagnetic pulse propagation time along the metal rods of measuring probes. For many years, it has been widely applied by scientists and engineers to measure moisture of soil but also to evaluate parameters of other porous media such as rocks or building materials.
The TDR method is continuously developing. New devices are being designed, techniques of signal processing are improved, probes constructions are modified and new formulas of calibration are estimated.
This Special Issue is addressed to all researchers that develop the TDR sensing technique of moisture detection.
Prof. Dr. Zbigniew Suchorab
Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Łagód
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- time domain reflectometry
- apparent permittivity
- sensing probe
- calibration methods
- moisture detection
- soil moisture
- material moisture
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