Estimation of Soil Moisture Content of Farmlands Based on AEA Method of GPR

Abstract

Abstract We used ground penetrating radar (GPR) to estimate the soil moisture content and its spatial distribution of farmland under different tillage modes in this paper. GPR data are collected on the farmlands with no-tillage (NT) and deep ploughing (DP), respectively. The average envelope amplitude (AEA) of GPR signal is used to estimate the soil moisture content which is constrained by time domain reflectometry (TDR) measurement. The findings of the field test indicate that the error of the moisture content obtained by AEA method is in a reasonable range. In the shallow layer of farmland, the AEA method of GPR for detecting the soil moisture content is feasible and different tillage modes can affect the change of soil moisture content.