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Appendix B: Soil Property Field Test
It is very important to determine the type of soil the sensors are being placed into in order to set an initial moisture setting on the base station.
While there are 12 types of soil with endless variations found in the field, we can narrow this to 4 types for installation purposes:
Type 1: Sand with an initial UgMO setting of 3
Type 2: Silty Loam with an initial UgMO setting of 5
Type 3: Clay with an initial UgMO setting of 7
Type 4: Highly Organic with an initial UgMO setting of 9