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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2008)

Published: September 30, 2008

Pages: 26-32

Original Article

Semi-Empirical Models for the Variation of Soil Complex Permittivity with Depth

Jawad K. Ali 1 Adil H. Ahmad
1Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq
History
  • Received: July 30, 2008
  • Available Online: September 30, 2008
DOI

https://doi.org/10.37917/ijeee.4.1.1

Abstract

In this paper new semi-empirical formulas are developed to evaluate the variation of both real and imaginary parts of soil complex permittivity with depth inside the earth's surface. Computed values using these models show good agreement with published measured values for soils of the same textures and same frequency band. Use of these models may serve to handle more accurate results especially in the ground probing radar (GPR) applications and other applications relating the detection of buried objects inside the earth's surface, where the use of a single average value of the soil complex permittivity had not necessarily led, for most of the times, to accurate results for the electromagnetic fields propagated inside the earth's surface.

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