Open field soil moisture measurements with Radar

-As reported in [1], the Material Characteristics in Frequency Domain coupled with a 2 layer feed-forward Neural Network, MCFD/NN, has been successfully applied to soil moisture determination. The results were obtained under controlled laboratory conditions. Extension to open field soil moisture determination has been reported in [2] and it was shown that the MCFD/NN approach gives accurate results under an uncontrolled environment. In the present research, open field soil moisture determination based on the MCFD/NN algorithm is further explored with data obtained from a four-day campaign at the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus’ baseball field. Key-Words: Ground-Penetrating Radar, Impulse Radar, Soil Moisture, Neural Network