Final Report
The Australian Irrigation Technology Centre (AITC) identified in its 1993 [1] survey of irrigators the low level of adoption of soil moisture sensing devices (less than 7%), despite there being a number of soil water sensors which could be used by irrigators to help schedule irrigation. There is a large range of devices available commercially which make various claims about measuring and monitoring soil moisture status.
The operation of these devices is based on a (more)...