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Symposium - 2007 Planning
October 07, 2005
PALTIN's Proposal for the Second International Symposium on Soil Water
Measurement using Capacitance, Impedance and Time Domain Transmission,
2007
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 to organize the “Second International Symposium on Soil Water
Measurement using Capacitance, Impedance and TDT” , in cooperation with
the USDA-ARS Agricultural Research Center, to be held at Beltsville,
Maryland, USA, on October 28 through November 02, 2007. Research,
academia, independent consultants, current and future customers,
manufacturers and distributors are cordially invited to support and
participate for the success of this symposium. It will be our choice to
follow with other symposiums every 5 -10 years.
Rationale:
Due to the new developments in research and technology for the last five
years, as well as future opportunities in developing multi-parameter
sensors (soil water, temperature and conductivity), a reevaluation of
the real-time capacitance, impedance and TDT sensors frequency variation
with soil temperature and soil electrical conductivity, at the same
location of measurement, is necessary.
In
the near future, the industry should be ready to supply new robust,
accurate real-time multi-parameter soil profile monitoring (1- 2m depth)
probes to equip the current and future agro-meteorological stations, or
perform as independent probes, or being an integral part of the
international network for global evaluation of the “active root
zone-plant community-atmosphere interface” related to water, energy and
nutrient dynamics at global and regional scales, using satellite
telemetry and fast internet data accessibility.
World wide increased demand for irrigation water and fertilizer
consumption in the urban developments (private homes, commercial
landscapes, parks, and sport fields) determine the rapid pace of
introduction of reliable, soil specific calibrated, soil
moisture/temperature/EC sensors, to be connected to the current time
based irrigation controllers, in order to increase water and fertilizer
application efficiencies, as well as reducing pollution of soil, and
excess nutrients into underground and surface waters.
Extreme flooding events (by oceans, lakes and rivers) impose
technological solutions for real-time monitoring of water dynamics
inside of the bodies of earth or concrete constructed dams, dikes,
embankments and efficient alarm systems in order to prevent large losses
of human and animal life, infrastructure and properties.
More international research and technological effort should be focused
on the importance of determining the soil water/temperature/EC signature
of the landmine environment, in order to improve the landmine (or
improvised devises) detection and neutralization.
Robust, low power consumption, resistant under extreme environmental
conditions, future data acquisition and telemetry systems (radio,
satellite) must perform flawlessly, and at the same time being capable
of serving a multitude of sensors, and software packages. Frequent
updating of software, as is customarily practice, on the expense of
customers should be avoided.
Independent consultants role in site specific calibration of probes and
their direct work with the end users (of any educational background and
experience) for proper installation and use of capacitance, impedance
and TDT probes and related data acquisition, telemetry, software
packages, is still of utmost importance. Industry should not consider
the use of these technologies as part of the general marketing (over the
counter) procedure. We are not, and should not be overzealously, there
yet.
Finally, it is to be noted that the capacitance based soil water
measuring sensor was chosen to be used in exploration of possible traces
of water on Mars, and possible on our natural satellite, Moon.
Let us wish our scientists, engineers and inventors, God Speed, to
explore the most precious element to sustain life in the universe,
WATER.
SYMPOSIUM TENTATIVE AGENDA:
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
proceedings of the symposium and possible in a book with the state of
the art and challenges facing capacitance, impedance and TDT probes in
the first decades of the 21st century;
2)
Poster presentation. Reviewed Abstracts (one page text) will be
published in the Proceedings of the Symposium;
3)
Technical exhibition for manufacturers to demonstrate their sensors,
probes, data acquisition, telemetry systems, and software packages;
4)
Laboratory and field visits to the US federal research institutions,
academia and private customers using capacitance, impedance and TDT
probes and real-time monitoring systems in the Washington D.C. –
Baltimore Corridor. Participation at visits to federal research centers
and laboratories require advanced approval from the local US Consulates
(follow the US State Department regulations). No special invitations
will be issued by the organizing committee.
CONTACT: All correspondence related to
Symposium – 2007 will be addressed or redirected to Dr. Ioan Caton
Paltineanu at
icpaltin@msn.com
BROCHURE: A brochure containing details on the Symposium will
be published at www.paltin.com -> Symposium 2007, in order to be
downloaded by the interested colleagues.
CORPORATE SPONSORS:
International, national and regional corporations and institutions are
cordially invited to sponsor the Second Symposium Transactions and of a
book on the state of the art and challenges for the capacitance,
impedance and TDT real-time monitoring probes and telemetry systems,
with final purpose of improving and preserving our planet’s global water
resources.
AGENDA:
September 07, 2007, First Announcement with international call for the
intention of participation
November 07, 2006, Deadline for intention of participation.
December 22, 2006, Call for registration (only papers and poster titles
and authors) "The Second International Symposium on Soil Water
Measurement using Capacitance, Impedance and Time Domain Transmission (TDT)",
2007
MAIN TOPICS FOR PAPERS, POSTERS AND DISCCUSSIONS (other topics
can be added with the approval of the Organizing Committee):
Presentations of original research, technical and synthesis papers
(oral, multimedia and posters) regarding:
The STATE OF THE ART, and the FIELD SCALE APPLICATIONS, including future
directions, will cover the following topics:
I) THE STATE OF THE ART:
1.1. Theory: dielectric properties of porous media; effects of operating
frequency sensors performance; relationship between water content,
temperature, salinity and reading frequencies; permittivity vs. water
content, etc.;
1.2. New developments: sensors, systems, logging facilities, telemetry
systems and accessories;
1.3. Software:
1.4. Calibration: Methodology (laboratory and field); Mineralogy;
Shrinking and Swelling media; High organic content media; Saline
conditions; Layered soils; Zone of influence (axial and radial);
statistics for intrinsic soil characteristics etc;
1.5. Development of new real-time soil water/temperature/EC profile
dynamics monitoring data based computer models for large areas;
1.6. Spatial monitoring and remote monitoring:
1.6.1. Soil water content (surface and profile) monitoring over large
research/application areas (ground truth);
1.6.2. Telemetry of data: Radio frequencies, cellular phones, aircraft,
satellites;
1.7. Global, continental, regional distribution of capacitance,
impedance and TDT probes, monitoring and telemetry systems over large
areas for research, practical applications and educational programs
(High Schools, Colleges, Public at large);
1.8. Future directions: Global network for real-time soil water profile
dynamics vs. remote sensing monitoring; etc.
II) APPLICATIONS CASE STUDIES:
2.1. Research oriented studies over large areas using GPS and GIS data
(climate change, drought, flood, agriculture, forestry, hydrology, and
environmental impact studies);
2.2. Aircraft and orbital platforms remote sensing calibration data
versus "ground truth" real-time soil moisture/temperature/EC profile
dynamics monitoring and telemetry systems data, using GPS and GIS data;
2.3. Irrigation and drainage in agricultural settings such as field and
vegetable crops, fruit trees, vineyards;
2.4. Real-time soil moisture based irrigation controllers for private
homes, sports fields (soccer, football, baseball, golf courses, etc..),
public parks, and commercial landscape architectural projects;
2.5. Land reclamation, rural development, civil engineering,
construction (dams, dicks, embankments, highways, bridges, airports,
concrete structures) and real-time monitoring, mining works;
2.6. Waste disposal sites for nuclear and non-nuclear materials;
2.7. Landmine location signature, environmental soil water, atmosphere
characterization for better landmine (or improvised devices) detection
and neutralization.
2.8. Future directions.
III) TENTATIVE AGENDA:
1) Preregistration . Participants name, address, Title of Paper, Poster
presentation, Exhibition: Send email to Dr. Ioan C. Paltineanu at
icpaltin@msn.com , before November 07, 2006;
2) Paper and poster presentations Abstracts: (authors, addresses, and
text maximum one page 8.5" X 11", MS Word, double spaced, 1" margin
top/base, 1" margin left/right, use 12 point font Times New Roman type
for Title, all other text use 10 point font Times New Roman type. Send
to Dr. Ioan C. Paltineanu at icpaltin@msn.com before February 07, 2007;
3) Organizing Committee response with acceptance of the Abstracts: March
07, 2007;
4) Registration (including fees for participation with papers, posters,
exhibits, sponsorship). Send to Dr. Ioan C. Paltineanu before April 07,
2007;.
5) Full text paper (maximum 10 pages including title, authors,
addresses, introduction, methods and materials, results, discussions,
recommendations, conclusions, tables and figures and references, MS
Word, double spaced). Send to Dr. Ioan C. Paltineanu at
icpaltin@msn.com
before May 07, 2007.
6) Return paper to authors, with peer review observations by July 07,
2007.
7) Final draft, ready for publication, will be send back to Dr. Ioan C.
Paltineanu, at icpaltin@msn.com by August 07, 2002.
8) Participants will receive at the opening of Symposium: a spiral hard
copy booklet with all abstracts of papers and poster presentations,
names and addresses of participants and sponsors; a book with full text
of the reviewed and approved for publication papers, max. 10
pages/paper); a CD ROM with all full length of peer reviewed papers.
9) At the recommendation of the Organizing Committee, the Sponsors will
provide funds for editing and publishing a book on "Capacitance,
Impedance and Time Domain Transmission probes for real-time soil
water/temperature/salinity profile monitoring: Theory and Practical
Applications"
11) Visits to US federal laboratories and large field scale studies and
practical applications, and demonstrations, will be included in the
program.
IV) SPONSORS AND COLLABORATORS:
National and international nongovernmental societies, state and federal
agencies, universities, private companies and foundations interested in
promoting non nuclear real-time soil water/temperature/salinity
measurement probes, monitoring and telemetry systems based on
Capacitance, Impedance and Time Domain Transmission, are welcomed and
will be recognized by the Symposium's Transactions.
V) PARTICIPATION FEES:
Individual and corporate fees for participation at Symposium will be
announced after the pre registration period, when the total number of
participants and companies will be known.
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