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Proposal: First International Symposium on Capacitance probes - Achievements and Challenges of the 21st
Century
Dear Bruce and All SOWACS Members,
Paltin International Inc., an independent research and technology
transfer company dealing with real-time water monitoring systems for
irrigation, drainage, hydrology and environmental impact studies, is
proposing the organization of the <bold>First International Symposium on
"Capacitance Probes - Achievements and Challenges of the 21st Century,
</bold>to be held in the Washington D.C. Baltimore Corridor area, in
the second half of next year. Research, academia, private consultants,
current and future customers, manufacturers and distributors are
cordially invited <underline>to support and participate to the success of
this first symposium</underline>. It will be our choice to follow with
other symposiums every 5 -10 years.
<bold>Rational:</bold> Capacitance probes and real-time soil water
profile dynamics monitoring systems, based on international research
developments of more then sixty years, have been under exponential
innovative and commercial expansion due to the advancements in
microelectronics, telemetry systems, computer hard and software, of the
last decade of the 20th century. At present, the capacitance probes are
manufactured on four continents (North America, Europe, Australia and
Middle East-Asia) and distributed globally. More challenges related to
the best use of water resources by all users are still ahead of us for
the next century, including the 'ground truth' regional and global
networks to be established for validation and real-time calibration of
actual and future remote sensing sensors installed on orbital
platforms.
<bold>Symposium tentative agenda: </bold>Four forms of participation are
envisaged:
1) Paper presentations to be reviewed by members of the organizing
committee and a panel of voluntary reviewers, and finally published in
proceeding of the symposium and possible in a book with the state of the
art and challenges facing capacitance probes in the first decade of the
21st century;
2) Technical exhibition for suppliers and manufacturers to
demonstrate their capacitance probes, telemetry and real-time monitoring
systems;
3) Short courses for future distributors and customers interested
to qualify for using or distributing new probes and technologies;
4) Laboratory and field visits to research institutions, academia
and private customers using capacitance probes and real-time monitoring
systems in the Washington D.C. Baltimore Corridor, where research on
multisensor capacitance probes and real-time monitoring systems had been
initiated in 1995 and still expanding in different experiments and field
studies.
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<bold>Organizing Committee: </bold>Professionals working on capacitance
probes and real-time monitoring systems in research, education, private
industry, and consultancy are kindly invited to contribute to the success
of the first international symposium on capacitance probes.
<bold>Corporate sponsors: </bold>International, national and regional
corporations and institutions are cordially invited to sponsor the first
symposium and publications of the state of the art and challenges for the
capacitance probes, telemetry and real-time monitoring systems for best
use of global water resources.<bold>
</bold>
We will welcome and appreciate your comments on organizing and
participation at the<bold> First International Symposium on "Capacitance
Probes - Achievements and Challenges of the 21st century, </bold>to be
held in the Washington D.C. Baltimore Corridor area, in the second half
of next year. Email will be addressed to Dr. Ioan C Paltineanu at
<<mailto:icpaltin@msn.com>icpaltin@msn.com ref: <bold>Symposium
Capacitance probes, 2002.
</bold>
<bold>
</bold>
Best regards,
Ioan C. Paltineanu, Ph.D. President
Paltin International Inc.
6309 Sandy St.
Laurel, Maryland 20707
Voice & Fax (301) 725-0604
Email: <<mailto:icpaltin@msn.com>icpaltin@msn.com
P.S.: Some of the recent papers and book chapters on multisensor
capacitance probes and real-time water dynamics monitoring, published in
collaboration, are enclosed, as references for the SOWACS (Capacitance
Probes) and for all members at their request.
<bold>
</bold>
<bold>Ioan C. Paltineanu, Ph.D.
</bold>
<bold>
</bold>
<bold>Selected Recent Published Papers on "Capacitance probes and water
dynamics monitoring systems":
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</bold>
<underline>Paltineanu, I. C.,</underline> and J. L. Starr, 2000.
Real-time soil water dynamics. Chapter 4, Hydrology, Section 4.6., J. H.
Lehr Editor, Handbook of Environmental Science, Health & Technology.
McGraw-Hill Publ., New York, N.Y., 4.45-4.57.
<underline>Paltineanu, I. C.</underline>, and J. L. Starr, 2000.
Preferential water flow through corn canopy and soil-water dynamics
across rows Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 64(1): 44-54.
Starr, J. L., and <underline>I. C Paltineanu,</underline> 1998.
Soil water dynamics using multisensor capacitance probes in non-traffic
interrows of plow and no-till corn Soil. Sci. Soc. Am. J. 62:
114-122
Starr, J. L., and <underline>I. C. Paltineanu</underline>, 1998.
Real-time soil water dynamics over large areas using multisensor
capacitance probes and monitoring system Soil and Till.Res. 47:43-49.
<underline>Paltineanu, I. C</underline>., J.L. Starr and P. J.
Rice, 1998. Multisensor capacitance probe use in soil water
dynamics studies versus real-time ET, irrigation and water
table data. Agronomy Abstracts. Annual Meeting of ASA-CSSA-SSSA,
Baltimore, MD., p286
<underline>Paltineanu, I. C.</underline>, and J. L. Starr, 1997.
Real-time soil water dynamics using multisensor capacitance probes:
laboratory calibration. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 61:1576-1585
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