Ali Abedi (center) and the wireless soil moisture sensor with graduate student Kenneth Bundy (left) and local high school teacher Ed Lindsey (right). Monitoring soil moisture is an important component ...

ONTARIO, Ore. — As Oregon State University researcher Udayakumar Sekaran sees it, soil-moisture sensors help farmers irrigate more efficiently but are limited by the wires to which they are attached.

A frequent beginner project involves measuring soil moisture levels by measuring its resistance with a couple of electrodes. These electrodes are available ready-made as PCBs, but suffer badly from ...

Soil health and moisture availability are critical for sustainable agricultural productivity, especially in the face of increasing climate variability and land degradation. This Coordinated Research ...