the effect of bulk density on emission behavior of soil at microwave frequencies土壤容重对排放性能的影响在微波频率.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology Volume 2011, Article ID 160129, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2011/160129 Research Article The Effect of Bulk Density on Emission Behavior of Soil at Microwave Frequencies V. K. Gupta and R. A. Jangid Microwave Research Laboratory, Department of Physics, Raj Rishi Autonomous Government P.G. College, Alwar, Rajasthan 301001, India Correspondence should be addressed to V. K. Gupta, contactvkg@yahoo.co.in Received 30 April 2011; Revised 18 October 2011; Accepted 1 December 2011 Academic Editor: Jean Pierre Wigneron Copyright © 2011 V. K. Gupta and R. A. Jangid. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Dielectric constant and dielectric loss (ε and ε ) of different soil samples with bulk densities varying from 1.3 to 2.0 gm/cm3 are determined at a single microwave frequency 9.78 GHz and at temperature 37.0◦C. Different bulk densities of same soil are achieved by filling the wave guide cell with an equal volume but a different mass of soil. Further, ε and ε of these soil samples are also estimated by semiempirical model and compared with the experimental results. The values of ε and ε increase as bulk density of the soil increases. In view of microwave remote sensing, the Fresnel reflectivity of soil is computed from the knowledge of the complex dielectric constant and the surface boundary condi