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Accurate soil moisture (SM) estimation is critical for precision agriculture, water resources management and climate monitoring. Yet, existing satellite SM products are too coarse (>1km) for farm-level applications. We present a…
Microwave remote sensors mounted on center pivot irrigation systems provide a feasible approach to obtain soil moisture information, in the form of water content maps, for the implementation of closed-loop irrigation. Major challenges such…
Diffusion models have gained attention for their success in modeling complex distributions, achieving impressive perceptual quality in SR tasks. However, existing diffusion-based SR methods often suffer from high computational costs,…
This paper proposes a novel approach to spectral computed tomography (CT) material decomposition that uses the recent advances in generative diffusion models (DMs) for inverse problems. Spectral CT and more particularly photon-counting CT…
We present a robust method, as well as a new metric, for the comparison of permittivity models in terahertz timedomain spectroscopy (THz-TDS). In this work, we perform an extensive noise analysis of a THz-TDS system, we remove and model the…
Time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) is a powerful technique for characterizing the thermal properties of layered materials. However, its effectiveness at modulation frequencies below 0.1 MHz is hindered by pulse accumulation effects,…
Soil moisture impacts exchanges of water, energy and carbon fluxes between the land surface and the atmosphere. Passive microwave remote sensing at L-band can capture spatial and temporal patterns of soil moisture in the landscape. Both ESA…
Monitoring moisture level of land in a large-scale plantation is tedious. The main objective of this project is to use a robotic kit in collaboration with the on-field moisture sensor circuits, thereby creating an efficient and economical…
A novel wireless microstrip-based RF sensor designed for detecting changes in ionic content of water and the addition of solid contaminant objects is proposed and demonstrated. The sensor can be installed on the exterior wall of dielectric…
Soil moisture (SM) plays a critical role in hydrological and meteorological processes. High-resolution SM can be obtained by combining coarse passive microwave data with fine-scale auxiliary variables. However, the inversion of SM at the…
Long-term monitoring of organic pollutants in the soil is a major environmental challenge. We propose to meet this issue by the development of a polymer dedicated to selectively react with H2S, coating surface acoustic wave transducers…
This paper discusses the performance of electrical spectroscopy using a RESPER probe to measure the salinity s and volumetric content {\theta}W of the water in concrete or terrestrial soil. The RESPER probe is an induction device for…
Soil moisture monitoring is a fundamental process to enhance agricultural outcomes and to protect the environment. The traditional methods for measuring moisture content in soil are laborious and expensive, and therefore there is a growing…
An experimental device was developed to monitor the field soil suction using miniature tensiometer. This device consists of a double tube system that ensures a good contact between the tensiometer and the soil surface at the bottom of the…
This paper presents a comprehensive study on a novel multilayer surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensor designed for detecting trace-level toxins in liquid samples with exceptional precision and efficiency. Leveraging the Kretschmann…
In recent years, multiple sensor-based devices and systems have been deployed in smart agriculture, industrial automation, E-Health, etc. The diversity of sensor data types and the amount of data pose critical challenges for data…
Remote sensing of soil moisture and vegetation water content from space often requires underdetermined inversion of a zeroth-order approximation of the forward radiative transfer equation in L-band---known as the $\tau$-$\omega$ model. This…
Soil moisture is a crucial hydrological state variable that has significant importance to the global environment and agriculture. Precise monitoring of soil moisture in crop fields is critical to reducing agricultural drought and improving…
In distributed fiber-optic sensing based on optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR), Doppler frequency shifts due to the changes of disturbances during one sweep period introduce demodulation errors that accumulate along both the…