A method for measuring soil water content based on principal component analysis.

Rev Sci Instrum

College of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130061, People's Republic of China.

Published: February 2024

Principal component analysis (PCA) has been applied in many aspects. To address the problem of measuring water content in soil, this paper proposes a method to measure soil water content based on the PCA. We used PCA to reduce the dimension of the data and processed the soil amplitude ratio frequency response spectra. First, we designed the measuring device and measured the soil amplitude ratio frequency response data of different water content, then we used the PCA to extract features from the frequency response spectra of different water contents, established a relationship model of soil water content, and finally, we solved the model, the maximum error between the calculation results and the actual water content was no more than 0.85%. Subsequently, we carried out experimental verification, and we measured six kinds of soil with known water content by this method. The experimental results showed that the maximum error did not exceed 1.16%, and the average error was 0.71%. Thus, the proposed method can provide a useful way of measuring soil water content.

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