Radar Development for Soil Water Content Estimation in Agriculture

Abstract

The soil water content is important data for agriculture. The method for collecting the soil water content data on a large agricultural area is needed and motivates the development of drone radar systems for this purpose. The presence of vegetation in the agricultural area poses a problem in the detection process. The vegetation presence can influence the estimation results. This paper discusses the development of a radar-drone system starting from theoretical studies and numerical simulations. Then proceed with modeling laboratory experiments and realization of the prototype. Experiments on the appropriate environment have been carried out, and the results show that the developed radar-drone system has good estimation performance.