Microwave Response To Soil Moisture Content

The requirements of a constantly increasing population of the world have placed a critical demand on water resources. To fulfill this ever increasing demand placed on water resources by the population, it is imperative to utilize technologically advanced and efficient techniques to explore and predict water availability in specific areas instead of random search. An efficient approach for determining soil moisture content in this sense is to conduct microwave remote sensing studies which can help in designing and developing active as well as passive ground-based, airborne and satellite-borne sensors to monitor the situations regularly. However, satellite systems are expensive. In our method, we propose the use of a microwave system to determine soil moisture content. The system uses a bistatic scatter method for measurement on the ground plane. The technique can not only determine water or any liquid content but also buried metals.