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Symposium – 2007
PROGRAM (as of Oct. 17, 2007)
Sunday, October 28, 2007
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13:00 – 16:00
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Set up of the Technical Exhibit at USDA-
ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Conference Room,
10300 Baltimore Ave., Bldg. 005, Beltsville, Maryland 20705, USA
(Security Badges required) |
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16:00 – 17:00
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Meeting of the Organizing Committee of
Symposium – 2007 (Security Badges required) |
Monday, October 29, 2007
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07:30 – 10.00 |
Breakfast and Registration of participants
(Security Badges, Transactions of Symposium
– 2007, Program, Brochure, and other materials will be given to
each individual participant) |
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Official opening of Symposium – 2007 (Conference, Posters and
Technical Exhibit) |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
Official visit of TECHNICAL EXHIBIT and
POSTERS |
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10:30 –
11:00 |
Official opening of Conference
Introductory remarks: Dr. Ioan Caton
Paltineanu – President, PALTIN International Inc., Laurel,
Maryland 20707, USA
Welcome Address: Dr. Phyllis E. Johnson –
Area Director, USDA – ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research
Center, Beltsville,
Maryland 20705, USA |
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11:00 –
12:00 |
Invited Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ghassem R.
Asrar – Deputy Administrator USDA – Agricultural Research
Service, Beltsville, Maryland, USA,
Email:
Ghassem.Asrar@ars.usda.gov
Lecture: “Natural Resources and Sustainable
Agriculture in 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities” |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch Break |
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13:00 – 16:00 |
1. STATE of THE ART:
Moderators:
1.1 “Real-Time
Soil Water Dynamics Monitoring using Capacitance, Impedance and
TDT – A Global View and Critique”
Ioan Caton
Paltineanu, Paltin International Inc., 6309 Sandy St. Laurel,
Maryland 20707, USA, Email:
ioan@paltin.com
Ioan
Paltineanu, George Washington University, Washington D.C.,
Email:
johnpaltin@gmail.com
1.2 “Interplay
of Soil Moisture, Conductivity, and Temperature in Soil Moisture
Sensors – A Theoretical Overview and Practical Implications”
Jeffrey E.
Campbell, Campbell Consulting LLC, 12 Spring Creek Dr.,
Horseshoe Bend, Idaho 8362, USA, Email:
campbell@hsb-idaho.com
1.3 “Modeling
water content estimation from electrical properties using the
Hydra Probe in disturbed and undisturbed soil samples”
Tairone P. Leao
and Edmund Perfect - University of Tennessee, Department of
Earth & Planetary Sciences, 1412 Circle Drive, 306 Earth &
Planetary Sciences Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, USA
Presenter:
Tairone P. Leao Email:
tleao@utk.edu |
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18:30 – 20:30 |
Cocktail Reception and Dinner at the Moose
Creek Steak House, Adirondack Room, Holiday Inn College Park,
10000 Baltimore Ave., College Park, Maryland 20740
Sponsors: Agrilink Holdings Pty. Ltd.,
Thebarton, SA 5033, Australia, Automata Inc., Nevada City,
California 95959, USA, and Sentek Pty Ltd., Stepney, SA 5069,
Australia |
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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08:30 – 09:00 |
Breakfast |
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09:00 –
12:00 |
State of THE ART (continued)
Moderators:
1.4 “Accuracy
and reproducibility of readings of several dielectric soil
moisture sensors tested in the laboratory”
J. Kucera1,
F. Dolezal2, M. Vlckova2, M. Nechvatal2,
T. Bayer2 & P. Prazak2
1Environmental
Measuring Systems, Turisticka 5, 621 00 Brno, Czech Republic
2Research
Institute for Soil and Water Conservation, Zabovreska 250, 156
27 Praha 5 – Zbraslav, Czech Republic
Presenter:
Frantizek Dolezal - Research Institute for Soil and Water
Conservation, Zabovreska 250, 156 27 Praha 5 – Zbraslav, Czech
Republic. Email:
dolezal@vumop.cz
1.5 “Soil
Moisture Spatial Patterns in a Uniform Paulownia Tree Stand”
Michael H. Cosh
- USDA-ARS-Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Rm. 104 Bldg
007 BARC-West, Beltsville, Maryland, USA, Email:
Michael.Cosh@ars.usda.gov
1.6 “Comparison
of plot-scale average soil water contents with data from
calibrated multisensor capacitance probes”
R. Rowland1*, A. Guber1,2,
Y. Pachepsky1, T. Gish3
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USDA-ARS Environmental Microbial
Safety Laboratory, 10300 Baltimore Ave., BARC-East, Bldg. 173,
Beltsville MD, USA Email:
Randy.Rowland@ars.usda.gov
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Department of Environmental Science, University of California
Riverside, Riverside, California, USA
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USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, 10300
Baltimore Ave., BARC-West, Bldg. 007, Beltsville MD, USA
Presenter: Randy Rowland - USDA-ARS
Environmental Microbial Safety Laboratory, Beltsville Maryland,
USA Email:
Randy.Rowland@ars.usda.gov |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch Break |
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13:00 –
16:00 |
2 APPLICATIONS:
Moderators:
2.1
“Dual-frequency multi-sensor capacitance probes for monitoring
water content and fertigation in drip irrigated watermelon”
Ian McCann -
University of Delaware Research and Education Center, 16483
County Seat Highway, Georgetown, Delaware, USA. Email:
mccann@udel.edu
James L. Starr
(Retired) – USDA, ARS, ANRI, HRSL, Beltsville, Maryland, USA,
jstarr@hydrolab.arsusda.gov
Presenter:
Ian McCann -
University of Delaware Research and Education Center, 16483
County Seat Highway, Georgetown, Delaware, USA. Email:
mccann@udel.edu
2.2
“Irrigation Templates for Florida Citrus Using AquaSpy
Multi-Sensor Capacitance Probes and Graphical Software
Chet Townsend,
Agrilink International Inc., 5400 Ft. Denaud Road, Fort Denaud,
Florida 33935, USA Email:
ctownsend@agrilink.net
2.3 “Numerical
Modelling and Experimental Verification of Plate Electrodes for
Dielectric Measurement of Water Content in Porous Materials”
Václav Kuráž,
Jan Matoušek, CTU in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering,
Thákurova 7, 166 29 Prague 6, Czech Republic
Presenter: Václav Kuráž E-mail:
kuraz@fsv.cvut.cz
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Wednesday, October 31,
2007
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07:30 – 07:50 |
Breakfast |
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4. POSTER SESSION & TECHNICAL EXHIBIT
visits and discussions only for participants at Symposium 2007 |
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07:50 – 09:50 |
POSTER SESSION:
“The influence
of minimum soil tillage systems on water conservation in soil”
Teodor Rus¹,
Petru Gus¹, Ileana Bogdan¹, Horea Cacovean¹, David C. Weindorf
², Ioan Pacurar ¹, and Marcel Dirja¹
¹University of
Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of
Agriculture, 3-5, Manastur Street, Cluj-Napoca 400372, Romania
trusu@usamvcluj.ro
²Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station, Stephenville, Texas, USA
Presenter:
Teodor Rusu - University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary
Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, 3-5, Manastur Street,
Cluj-Napoca 400372, Romania
Email:
trusu@usamvcluj.ro
4.2 “Contact
free capacitive soil moisture sensor and hand-held reader”
Alain Izad.
Ph.D., Electronics and MEMS sensor consultant, Cleveland,
OHIO, 44022, USA Email:
izad_a44@yahoo.com
4.3 “The
Precision Analysis on three Soil Moisture Auto-monitors applied
in Henan Province”
Ye LM1
Li YS] Wu ZG2 Yu GH2
Deng W1 Chen HB1 Wang YB2
Niu SJ2 Ye Jin2
¹The
Meteorological Institute of Henan, No. 110 Jinshui Road,
Zhengzhou, Henan 450003, ²CETC Twenty-Seventh Institute,
Zhengzhou, China
Presenter:
Linmao Ye - The Meteorological Institute of Henan, Zhengzhou,
Henan 450003, China Email:
Yjx819@163.com
4.4 “The
Application of FDR (Capacitance) Soil Moisture Sensors in
Client/Server Network-monitoring System”
Li Yu-sheng1,2
Shen Shuang-he1 Ye Lin-mao2 Fan Yu-lan2
Yang Hai-ying2 Xue Haizhong3
¹Nanjing
University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044,
China; ²The Meteorological Institute of Henan, Zhengzhou, Henan
450003, China; ³Zhengzhou AOYUAN Electronic Co. Ltd, Zhengzhou,
Henan 450005, China
Presenter:
Linmao Ye - The Meteorological Institute of Henan, Zhengzhou,
Henan 450003, China Email:
Yjx819@163.com
4.5
“Integrating Dielectric Constant-based Soil Moisture Sensors
into Fully Automated Irrigation Control Systems”
K B Dassanayake¹,
N M Cooley¹, G M Dunn¹, D Chapman¹,
H Malano², S K Ooi³, K Salem4,
B Beresford-Smith4, M Pham4 and G Thomas4
¹School
of Agriculture and Food Systems, ²Civil and
Environmental Engineering and ³Electrical &
Electronic Engineering of the University of Melbourne and
4National Information and Communications
Technology Australia Limited (NICTA), Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia
Presenter:
Kithsiri Bandara Dassanayake – The University of Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia Email:
kbd@unimelb.edu.au
4.6 “Design and
development of resistive soil moisture sensor and its signal
conditioning circuit”
Tapankumar Basu 1,, Vijaya Ravindra
Thool 2,, Ravindra C. Thool 2,
¹Indian
Institute of Technology, Khargapur, West Bengal, India, and
²SGGS Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vishnupuri-
Nanded, India. 431605. Email:
vrthool@yahoo.com
Presenter:
Vijaya Thool - SGGS Institute of Engineering and Technology,
Vishnupuri- Nanded, India. Email:
vrthool@yahoo.com
4.7 “Field and
laboratory ad hoc calibrations of Virrib and Theta-probe
dielectric sensors for soil moisture measurements”
F. Dolezal1, T. Litschmann2, J. Kucera3, J. Peterkova1, J.
Zavadil1, J. Vacek4, P. Prazak1, E. Pilna1,T. Bayer1 & M.
Nechvatal1
1Research Institute for Soil and Water Conservation, Zabovreska
250, 156 27 Praha 5 – Zbraslav, Czech Republic, 2AMET –
Consortium Litschmann –Suchy, Velke Bilovice, 691 02, Czech
Republic, 3Environmental Measuring Systems, Turisticka 5, 621 00
Brno, Czech Republic, 4Potato Research Institute Havlickuv Brod,
Ltd. Dobrovskeho 2366, 580 01 Havlickuv Brod, Czech Republic.
Presenter: Frantisek. Dolezal , Research Institute for Soil and
Water Conservation, Zabovreska 250, 156 27 Praha 5 – Zbraslav,
Czech Republic, Email:
dolezal@vumop.cz
TECHNICAL EXHIBIT:
Booth # 01
Agrilink Holdings Pty. Ltd., Thebarton, S.A. 5033, Australia
Booth # 02
Campbell Consulting LLC/AST, Horse Shoe Bend, Idaho, USA
Environmental Measuring
Systems (EMS), Brno, Czech Republic
Booth # 03 Irrometer Co.,
Inc., Riverside, California, USA
Booth # 04
Sentek Sensor Technologies, Stepney,
South Australia, Australia
Booth # 05
Automata Inc., Nevada City, California, USA. |
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09:50 |
Busses depart for the field day visits |
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10:15 –
11:45 |
Field visit to the PALTIN International
Inc. Field Demo Sites at the new Maryland Jockey Club – Laurel
Race Track.
Results obtained with real-time single and
multi-parameter sensors and profile water dynamics probes, under
the new horse racing turf course conditions including big gun
sprinkler irrigation from the internal pond and ground water
supply and from the turf course internal sub-surface drainage
system.
Real-time radio (900 MHz) transmission of
data from the soil water/EC/Temperature monitoring sensors in
the field to the radio receivers (900 MHz) at the
Agro-meteorological station and at the
office computer with possibility of cellular phone access will
be presented.
Independent stations with low orbit
satellite telemetry and internet access of data will be
introduced and discussed.
Presentations:
Mr. Robbie Mitten – Turf course Superintendent, Laurel Race
Track, The Maryland Jockey Club, Maryland
Mr. Glen Kozak – The Maryland Jockey Club
Dr. Ioan C. Paltineanu – President, PALTIN
International Inc., Laurel, Maryland |
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12:00 – 12:30 |
Lunch at the Grand Stand of the Laurel Race
Park, The Maryland Jockey Club (all participants) Sponsor: The
Maryland Jockey Club |
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12:30– 13:15 |
Discussions at the Grand Stand about
real-time soil water/EC/temperature monitoring under Laurel and
Pimlico turf courses at the Grand Stand |
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13:15 – 13:45 |
Race named: “Symposium – 2007 PALTIN
International Inc.”, group photo with the winner of the race and
visit to the paddock |
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14:00 –
16:00 |
Visits to the USDA-ARS Beltsville Area/
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC):
1) The USDA-ARS National Visitor Center
(NVC)
2) Field presentation: USDA – NRCS Soil
Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) Powder Mill – SCAN - Site and
the USDA – ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center OPE³
research program
"The USDA-NRCS Soil Climate Analysis
Network provides hourly climate and soil moisture information
across the United States in an effort to establish a national
network for climate and hydrologic monitoring."
OPE3:
"Optimizing Production Inputs for Economic and Environmental
Enhancement
(OPE³) is an international research program involving U.S.
Federal agencies, Universities, and private industry. The
infrastructure of OPE3 provides a meaningful comparison of
agricultural production systems with a research site that is
large enough to capture the spatial variability of crop and soil
parameters, yet not so large that the fields themselves are in
different climatic or geologic settings. This site has four
hydrological bounded watersheds, 4 ha each, which feed a wooded
riparian wetland and first-order stream."
Presenter: Dr. Michael H. Cosh, Research Hydrologist, USDA–ARS,
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Hydrology and Remote
Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland 20705, USA.
Email:
Michael.Cosh@ars.usda.gov |
Thursday, November 01, 2007
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08:30 – 09.00 |
Breakfast |
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09:00 -12:00 |
2. APPLICATIONS (continued)
Moderators:
2.4 “Real Time
Irrigation Scheduling Using Capacitance and Time Domain
Reflectometry Soil Water Sensors”
Chandra A.
Madramootoo, Bano Mehdi, Apurva Gollamudi and Sajjad Ali,
Department of Bioresource Engineering and
Brace Centre
for Water Resources Management, McGill University, Montreal,
Canada,
Presenter:
Chandra A. Madramootoo – Department of Bioresource Engineering,
McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Email:
Chandra.madramootoo@mcgill.ca
2.5
“Application of TDR for the Concentration Measurement in Soil
Solution”
Svatopluk
Matula and Pavel Merunka - Czech
University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and
Natural Resources, Dept. of Soil Science and Geology,
Kamýcká 129, CZ-165 21 Praha 6, Czech
Republic
Presenter: Svatopluk Matula
E-mail:
matula@af.czu.cz
2.6 “Evaluation
of salinity-capacitance probe and suction cup device for real
time soil salinity monitoring in South Australian irrigated
horticulture”
Tapas K Biswas1,
Michael Dalton2 and Gerrit Schrale1
1Water
Resources & Irrigated Crops, SARDI Sustainable Systems, GPO Box
397, Adelaide, SA 5001.
biswas.tapas@saugov.sa.gov.au
2Sentek
Sensor Technologies Pty. Ltd., 77 Magill Road, Stepney,
Adelaide, SA, 5069.
Presenter:
Michael Dalton – Sentek Sensor Technologies Pty. Ltd., 77 Magill
Road, Stepney, Adelaide, SA, 5069, Australia. Email:
mdalton@sentek.com.au
“AgWISE –
Integrating Soil Moisture and Weather Data Online in Real Time”
David Sloane -
Agrilink Holdings Pty. Ltd., Thebarton, SA 5033, Australia
Email:
dsloane@agrilink.net
2.8 “Long term
experience using Capacitance, Impedance and TDT sensors on Horse
Racing Turf in Maryland”
Ioan Caton
Paltineanu¹, Robbie Mitten², Glen Kozak², Ioan Paltineanu³
¹Paltin
International Inc., Laurel, Maryland, USA, ²Maryland Jockey
Club, Laurel, Maryland, USA, ³George Washington University,
Washington, D.C., USA.
Presenter: Ioan
Caton Paltineanu Email:
ioan@paltin.com |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch Break |
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13:00 –
16:00 |
3 NEW DEVELOPMENTS:
Moderators:
3.1 “AquaBlu –
An Intelligent Capacitance Based Soil Moisture Switch Domestic
Irrigation Controllers”
David Sloane -
Agrilink Holdings Pty. Ltd., Thebarton, SA 5033, Australia
Email:
dsloane@agrilink.net
3.2 “Time
Domain Reflectometry Complex Permittivity Measurement in
Hydrating Cement Systems for Determining Chemical State of
Water”
Nat .E. Hager
III and R.C. Domszy, Material Sensing & Instrumentation, 772
Dorsea Rd., Lancaster PA 17601, USA
Presenter: Nat
E. Hager III Email:
nhager@msi-sensing.com
“TerraNet – The
Next Generation of Plug and Play Capacitance Sensors”
Neil Paterson
and David Sloane - Agrilink Holdings Pty. Ltd., Thebarton, SA
5033, Australia
Presenter:
David Sloane Email:
dsloane@agrilink.net |
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18:30 –
20:30 |
Cocktail Reception and Dinner |
Friday, November 02, 2007
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08:30 – 09:00 |
Breakfast |
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09:00 –
13:00 |
3. NEW DEVELOPMENTS (continued) and Future
directions
Moderators:
3.4 “Sensing
and Novel Underground Communication Technology for Soil and
Water Management”
Krishna Shenai
and Nathan Jack - Dept. Electrical & Computer Engineering., Utah
State University, 4120 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322, USA
Presenter:
Krishna Shenai USTAR Professor Email:
kshenai@engineering.usu.edu,
njack@cc.usu.edu
3.5 “Roll Your
Own Probe – A Revolutionary New Capacitance Probe Design”
Neil Paterson
and David Sloane - Agrilink Holdings Pty. Ltd., Thebarton, SA
5033, Australia Email:
Presenter:
David Sloane Email:
dsloane@agrilink.net
3.6 “Report on
the Guidelines for Standardization of Laboratory Calibration
Methodology of Dielectric Sensors for Soil Water,
Soil Electrical
Conductivity and Soil Temperature Measurement”
Ioan Caton
Paltineanu, Jeffrey Campbell, and James L. Starr
Presenter:
Presenter: Ioan Caton Paltineanu Email:
ioan@paltin.com |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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14:30 – 15:00 |
Moderator presentations of conclusions and
free discussions on new directions for the future (symposiums,
book presentations, etc.)
Official closure of Symposium - 2007 |
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