The model of permittivity of organomineral soils, considering mineral composition and organic matter content

Abstract

The single-frequency dielectric model of thawed and frozen forest soils in the root zone based on the refractive dielectric model was created, taking into account the influence of both the mineral and organic components of the soil mixture. The dielectric model was created on at 435 MHz the basis of the laboratory dielectric measurements of five soils with organic matter content in the range from 11.1 to 54.4 % and clay content from 21.1 to 40.9 %. Dielectric measurements were carried out in the range of the gravimetric moisture from the dry state to the lowest moisture capacity and in the temperature range from –30 to 25 ℃. The coefficient of determination between the predicted and measured values for real and imaginary parts of the complex permittivity are 0.988 - 0.997 and 0.957 - 0.971, respectively. The normalized standard deviations in this case are 6 - 5.6 % and 20.2 - 21.2 % for real and imaginary parts of the complex permittivity, respectively. The developed dielectric model can be used in remote sensing algorithms of soil moisture retrieval of forest soils in the root zone from the data radar and radiometric.