The DOI matches its Crossref record; 19 of the 19 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Survey of methods for soil moisture determination
Open accessAbstract
Increased interest in soil moisture information for applications in such disciplines as hydrology, meteorology, and agriculture has necessitated an overview of both existing and proposed methods for determination of soil moisture. This paper thus discusses methods of in situ soil moisture determination including gravimetric, nuclear, and electromagnetic techniques; soil physics models that track the behavior of water in the soil in response to meteorological inputs (precipitation) and demands (evapotranspiration); and remote sensing approaches that use the solar, thermal infrared, and microwave portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The abilities of these approaches to satisfy various user needs for soil moisture information vary from application to application. Therefore we have proposed a conceptual scheme for merging these approaches into an integrated system. This system should provide soil moisture information having the potential for meeting the requirements of various applications.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Model for predicting evaporation from a row crop with incomplete cover
Ritchie, J. T. (1972) · Water Resources Research · doi:10.1029/wr008i005p01204 · Cited by 2,240
A Comparative Study of the Effects of Albedo Change on Drought in Semi–Arid Regions
Charney, J., Quirk, W. J., Chow, S., & Kornfield, J. (1977) · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · doi:10.1175/1520-0469(1977)034<1366:acsote>2.0.co;2 · Cited by 767
Effect of surface roughness on the microwave emission from soils
Choudhury, B. J., Schmugge, T. J., Chang, A., & Newton, R. W. (1979) · Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans · doi:10.1029/jc084ic09p05699 · Cited by 620
Self-citationSimulation of field water uptake by plants using a soil water dependent root extraction function
Feddes, R. A., Kowalik, P., Kolinska-Malinka, K., & Zaradny, H. (1976) · Journal of Hydrology · doi:10.1016/0022-1694(76)90017-2 · Cited by 525
Dielectric properties of soils at UHF and microwave frequencies
Hoekstra, P., & Delaney, A. (1974) · Journal of Geophysical Research · doi:10.1029/jb079i011p01699 · Cited by 453
Nimah, M. N., & Hanks, R. J. (1973) · Soil Science Society of America Journal · doi:10.2136/sssaj1973.03615995003700040018x · Cited by 411
The Dependence of Bare Soil Albedo on Soil Water Content
Idso, S. B., Jackson, R. D., Reginato, R. J., Kimball, B. A., & Nakayama, F. S. (1975) · Journal of applied meteorology · Cited by 410
The effect of soil moisture on circulation and rainfall in a tropical model
Walker, J., & Rowntree, P. R. (1977) · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · doi:10.1002/qj.49710343503 · Cited by 376
Field manual for research in agricultural hydrology
(1965) · Journal of Hydrology · doi:10.1016/0022-1694(65)90047-8 · Cited by 343
Simultaneous transport of solutes and water under transient unsaturated flow conditions
Bresler, E. (1973) · Water Resources Research · doi:10.1029/wr009i004p00975 · Cited by 263
Cited by
Wireless sensor networks for agriculture: The state-of-the-art in practice and future challenges
Ojha, T., Misra, S., & Raghuwanshi, N. S. (2015) · Computers and Electronics in Agriculture · doi:10.1016/j.compag.2015.08.011 · Cited by 894
Physically based modeling in catchment hydrology at 50: Survey and outlook
Paniconi, C., & Putti, M. (2015) · Water Resources Research · doi:10.1002/2015wr017780 · Cited by 374
In situ measurement of soil moisture: a comparison of techniques
Walker, J. P., Willgoose, G. R., & Kalma, J. D. (2004) · Journal of Hydrology · doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2004.01.008 · Cited by 371
Metadata
- Authors
- Schmugge, T. J., Jackson, T. J., & McKim, H. L.
- Venue
- Water Resources Research
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 1980-12
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 961-979
- ISSN
- 0043-1397 (ISSN-L)
- 1944-7973
- OpenAlex
- W2089333997
- Cited by
- 455
- References
- 19
- FWCI
- 15.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Survey of methods for soil moisture determination. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1029/wr016i006p00961
- The paper
- Schmugge, T. J., Jackson, T. J., & McKim, H. L. (1980). Survey of methods for soil moisture determination. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/wr016i006p00961
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
