Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems
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Articles | Volume 13, issue 1
Articles | Volume 13, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-13-85-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-13-85-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 13, issue 1
Research article
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26 Apr 2024
Research article |  | 26 Apr 2024

A distributed-temperature-sensing-based soil temperature profiler

Bart Schilperoort, César Jiménez Rodríguez, Bas van de Wiel, and Miriam Coenders-Gerrits

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Heat storage in the soil is difficult to measure due to vertical heterogeneity. To improve measurements, we designed a 3D-printed probe that uses fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing to measure a vertical profile of soil temperature. We validated the temperature measurements against standard instrumentation. With the high-resolution data we were able to determine the thermal diffusivity of the soil at a resolution of 2.5 cm, which is much higher compared to traditional methods.
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