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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Comparing the Accuracy of Soil Moisture Estimates Derived from Bulk and Energy-Resolved Gamma Radiation Measurements.

Sonia Akter, Johan Alexander Huisman, Heye Reemt Bogena

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Sonia AkterAgrosphere Institute (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52428 Jülich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1706-3940
Johan Alexander HuismanAgrosphere Institute (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52428 Jülich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1327-0945
Heye Reemt BogenaAgrosphere Institute (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52428 Jülich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9974-6686

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft SFB1502/1-2022
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Monitoring soil moisture (SM) using permanently installed gamma radiation (GR) detectors is a promising non-invasive method based on the inverse relationship between SM and soil-emitted GR. In a previous study, we successfully estimated SM from environmental gamma radiation (EGR) measured by a low-cost counter-tube detector. Since this detector type provides a bulk GR response across a wide energy range, EGR signals are influenced by several confounding factors, e.g., soil radon emanation, biomass. To what extent these confounding factors deteriorate the accuracy of SM estimates obtained from EGR is not fully understood. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare the accuracy of SM estimates from EGR with those from reference

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confounding factorsgamma radiationsoil moisture monitoringwavelet transform coherence

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PMID40732581
PMCPMC12300829

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