UWA SENSOR NETWORK GROUP SOIL MOISTURE EXPERIMENT DATA PAGE

Page under construction. Last updated 8 June 06 by Rachel Cardell-Oliver

This page is a repository for soil moisture trial data from UWA's sensor networks group's environment monitoring projects.

Perth Hills Temperature and Moisture Data 2006

May Trial Data Page

 

April Trial Data Page

 

March Trial Data Page

Jolimont April data 2006 still to come

 

Jolimont Sand Temperature and Moisture Data Fleck Network September 05

Trial data of 10 min readings from September 3 to 16, 2005. Fleck 142 reads soil temperature (channels 1 and 2) and soil moisture (channels 3 to 8). Fleck 143 and 16 read soil moisture (channels 3 to 5). Ignore noise on channels 6 to 8. Fleck 16 replaced 143 on 12 September, keeping the same sensor board and sensors, so these series should be concatenated.
moisturelog143.csv
moisturelog142.csv
moisturelog16.csv

Jolimont Sand Temperature and Moisture Data Fleck Network August 05

Data collected by ROPEListen from 1 base fleck (sending awake messages) and two sensor flecks during August and September 2005 is no longer here because there are many gaps in this data because of battery changes and some failures. Also, the flecks themselves were changed a couple of times to update SW. If you wish to use this data for some reason, email rachel at csse. The soil moisture data logged in September is given above.

Pinjar Flooding Trials

Between December 04 and April 05 we monitored a native banksia woodlands field site using Mica2 motes and a Decagon Em5 data logger. The site was flooded twice during the trial. Mote loggers 20, 65, 120 and 141, each with 2 soil moisture probes, were in the field from December, taking 30 minute readings. Their battery lifetime varied widely from 6 days (with 3xNiMh batteries) to 46 days (LiSO2 batteries). Mote logger 62, with 2 soil moisture probes, was in the field for the whole trial period, recording once per 30 minutes. An Em5 data logger was placed at the same site with 5 soil moisture probes. Readings from the Em5 at 30 minute intervals are available from day 355 (Dec 20 2004) to day 35 (Feb 4 2005). The Em5 takes 1 min readings and averages them over the logging interval.
pinjar.jan05.em5.csv
pinjar.jan05.motes.xls
mica62.mar05.csv
pinjar.dec20-apr12.mote62.pdf
pinjar.dec20-feb4.motes.pdf
pinjar.jan3-jan16.flood.em5.pdf

Jolimont Sand Temperature and Moisture Data

One Decagon soil temperature sensor and 3 Echo20 soil moisture sensors were placed in sandy soil. The first trial 16-21 April was in fine conditions; the soil was watered on 18th. The second trial 21 April to 2 May included watering on 22, 25, 29 April and 2 May, and heavy rain storms from 30 April to 2 May. All readings were taken at 15 minute intervals. The Em5 takes 1 min readings and averages them over the logging interval.
garden.sm-temp.may05.pdf
garden.millivolts.apr-may05.csv
garden.tempSM.fine.apr05.xls
garden.tempSM.storms.may05.xls

Calibration Tests with Decagon Soil Sensors

Decagon soil moisture and temperature sensors were tested in air, water and soil. The water tests were started in warm water, and left to cool. Sensor were read with a CSIRO Fleck and 8 probe soil sensor board and with a Decagon Em5 data logger. Each sensor on the CSIRO Fleck was logged apx once per 8 seconds. Em5 data was collected at 1 minute intervals (the minimum reading interval).
csi-em5-calibration.2may05.pdf
csiro-em5-calibration-results.xls

Links

Conversion formulae for soil moisture and temperature readings from Flecks and Mica2s (new Mar 06)

Soil Moisture Monitoring Project with UWA and the WA Water Corporation
Ad Hoc Networking Group at UWA
Western Australia Weather Data from the Bureau of Meterology