Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Soil Drainage

Posted on 1/02/2008 08:54:00 AM by Andrew Bishop with 1 comment
The soil drainage group is searching for new ways to measure soil drainage that we could incorporate into our project. Soil drainage is measured by variety of test presented in the gardening packet. We plan to include this as a automated process in our device. With the use of labview and moister detectors we can make the test more accurate and easier.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Saratoga InvenTeam-

Can soil drainage be determined by soil compaction:
Hardness (clay)
Softness (organic material)
Is there a probe for "hardness"?

Check out this link:
http://soils.usda.gov/sqi/assessment/test_kit.html

This link discusses bulk density as a measurement of soil quality (i.e. drainage)

Check out the site's excel spreadsheet for determining quality.

Mrs. E

January 2, 2008 at 12:33 PM

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