Soil matric potential - tensiometer (T5)

Parameter to be measured:

Soil matric potential

Method:

Tensiometer

Equipment:

T5

Advantages:

• Small
• Very fast response
• Great resolution when used with the DL6-te Tensiometer Data logger
• Reliable

Disadvantages:

• Their small size makes them great for laboratory or flume experiments but less appropriate for field measurements.
• They have to be taken out of the soil to refill them.

What to watch out for:

• Don’t burry them too deep - you will have to dig them out (and thus disturb the soil again) if you need to refill them.

Links

Projects that used the above equipment:

• http://eflum.epfl.ch/research/erosion.en.php

Other related web sites:

• http://www.decagon.com/tensiometers/t5.html
• http://www.ums-muc.de/fileadmin/produkt_downloads/Tensiometer/T5_Datasheet.pdf