Microwave Sensors for Soil Moisture Detection: An Application toward Healthy Date Palm

Abstract

Soil moisture is an important key parameter in the earth ecosystem that has an impact on both landscape and atmospheric conditions. Moreover, sudden changes to soil moisture due to environmental conditions result in degradation to food plants and, thus, may consequently affect food yields. This chapter aims to investigate numerically an application for crops health through soil moisture detection using microwave-based sensors. The numerical studies are carried out using full-wave electromagnetic simulations. More emphasis on the numerical setup of microwave antennas with customized modeled soil layer is presented.