REAL-TIME quality check of measurements of soil water status in the vadose zone

The in-situ monitoring of soil suction and water content is important for a range applications from civil engineering (e.g. estimation groundwater infiltration) to agriculture optimization irrigation). efficiency field systems has recently improved thanks the development sensors that continuously record status data remotely transmit them through internet. These are, however, accessed by users only on periodic basis, which impedes timely detection sensor failures. To overcome this limitation, paper describes method automatically assessing quality measurements in field. based real time comparison between reference soil-water retention curve. A tolerance box introduced around each point, defined pair measurements. If intersects curve, are assumed work correctly. Conversely, if falls outside at least one two may have failed. proposed been validated against five different agricultural soils confirming tool evaluating accuracy data.