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Abstract: The soil complex dielectric permittivity (CDP) is a fundamental physical quantity utilized in microwave remote sensing to estimate soil moisture. Although several four-parameter (soil ...

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Abstract: An attractive microwave free-space method is proposed for permittivity extraction of soil samples using calibration-free time-domain measurements. Different from other similar methods in the ...

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