The first step to understanding if you are collecting quality soil moisture data is to first know where they’re wrong.
But what makes good data go bad?
Proactive prevention of data’s main confounders
Would you recognize bad data if you had it? Knowing what to look for and the key steps to take to prevent later problems is the difference between accuracy and estimation. In this 30-minute webinar, METER’s soil moisture sensor product manager and ecology and plant physiology specialist, Chris Chambers, will break down the largest contributors to degradation in data.
Discussed in this webinar:
The impacts of an inaccurate or unreliable sensor
How incorrect installation can invalidate all data
How to preempt installation issues before they occur
How to minimize the possibility of preferential flow
What METER is doing to help you get the most accurate data possible
And more
Presenter
Chris Chambers operates as the Environment Support Manager and the Soil Moisture Sensor Product Manager at METER Group, the world leader in soil moisture measurement. He specializes in ecology and plant physiology and has over 15 years of experience helping researchers measure the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum.
In this 20-minute webinar, METER scientist Leo Rivera compares available methods and teaches how to combine the latest technology to generate full, accurate curves with hundreds of points in only a couple of days—instead of a couple of months.
If you’re not measuring water potential, or not measuring it correctly, your data could be telling you the wrong thing. Water content measurements can only tell you so much, and inferring water potential from water content is inaccurate at best, and completely misleading in worst-case scenarios.
Webinar: Using the salt balance to irrigate more efficiently
The global pressure for water conservation is being felt in every industry, especially in arid countries. In agriculture, the balance can be hard to find.
In this 30-minute webinar, Dr. Gaylon Campbell, Senior Research Scientist at METER for over 25 years, breaks down how to measure the water and salt balance and how to use these measurements to improve irrigation efficiency. He will discuss:
Climate change impacts on irrigated agriculture
Things that can and cannot increase water use efficiency in agriculture