Correcting Inaccurately Recorded Data due to Faulty Calibration of a Capacitance Water Content Probe

Table 1

Sample soil calibrations from different sources.

#	Texture/calibration	𝐴	𝐵	𝐶	𝑟^2	Source
(1)	Default calibration	1	1	0	—	Sentek
(2)	Default Sentek calibration; [sands, loam, and clay loam]	0.196	0.404	0.0285	0.974	Sentek
(3)	Clay (1.019 g/cm^3)	0.012	1.000	0.146	0.979	USDA
(4)	Coarse sand (1.3 g/cm^3)	0.017	1.000	0.268	0.987	USDA
(5)	Combined soils; [sand, sandy loam, and clay]	0.014	1.000	0.326	0.973	USDA
(6)	Silt loam (1.24–1.59 g/cm^3)	0.551	0.258	−0.527	0.992	USDA
(7)	Sandy loam (1.3 g/cm^3)	0.013	1.000	0.326	0.965	USDA
(8)	Sandy loam (1.5 g/cm^3)	0.013	1.000	0.372	0.987	USDA
(9)	Fine loose sand (1.5 g/cm^3)	1.928	0.107	−1.911	0.989	Current study