Research Article

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

Table 4

The studied scenarios to compare correct versus incorrect calibration parameters.

ScenarioApplied calibration parameters contains one or more error(s) Correct calibration parameters
Air/water In-soil parametersAir/water In-soil parameters

1d1c9
2c1c9
3d2c9
4c2c9
5d9c9
6c2c3
7c2c4
8c2c5
9c2c6
10c2c7
11c2c8

d: default parameters, in-air reading = 65535, in-water reading = 0; c: calibrated parameters, in-air reading = 36215, in-water reading = 25173. ♠: the number indicates the number of calibration scenario in Table 1.