【Instrumentation of Infiltrometers with #Arduino to Determine Soil Water Infiltration Rate】

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Article by Afranio Almir Righes, et al., from Franciscan University, Brazil.

The infiltration of water in the soil is the component of the hydrological cycle and can interfere in the availability of water for crop productivity. Monitoring the rate of #water_infiltration is essential to select the best soil and management techniques to be used to increase water infiltration. Among the methods available to determine the rate of water infiltration into the soil, the concentric ring method (#Muntz_ring) is the most used method for simplicity. However, they demand many repetitions, with a lot of work and need trained field personnel to obtain data. The work presented modified Muntz rings method to automate the determination the rate of water infiltration in the soil.