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NOTE: To get off this list, send email to majordomo@aqua.ccwr.ac.za with the body of the message containing the line: unsubscribe sowacs Dear Bruce, Almost a year ago I completed a contract with an Aus R&D funder to produce a Soil Moisture Monitoring package. The package reviews about 25 products presenting pros and cons (as far as the manufacturers would go). It has just been uploaded to a website <http://www.npird.gov.au/projects/finalrep_pdf/index.html>http://www.npird.g ov.au/projects/finalrep_pdf/index.html and I thought it would make a good addition to the SOWACS links. [It has been added at the top:) Ed.] Details are also given on how to obtain hard copies of the publication. Regards Philip Charlesworth CSIRO Land and Water Townsville Australia [Bruce comments: Every now and then a very important publication comes along, and this is one of them.. Thanks Philip, for making me aware of this excellent contribution, this is the life-blood of sowacs. A link to it has already been added to the "comaprisons" section of sowacs (for those who want to be able to get to this at a later date). I had a brief look, and am sure you will not mind a few short extractions to be repeated here?! The title of the work is Irrigation Insights No. 1 Soil Water Monitoring ISSN 1443-0320 ISBN 0 642 76055 1 The table of contents promises a wide ranging introduction to SMS: An introduction is followed by an explanation of what is being measured. Then the various types of sensor are intorduced by category followed by "Selecting a product". A 9 page summary of product feature will no doubt be of great use to those choosing a sensor. The individual models are then covered by sections, notibly heat dissipation, TDR, capacitance, neutron probe. Wetting front detection is also covered. Case studies prove usful reading for real-life applications of "how do I" and "what should I" questions. A contacts list and web resources section is folllowed by appendices which are made up of papers detailing some of the theory behind many of the techniques.]