This project comprises research works carried out in the metrology laboratories as well as in the natural environment. In the SoMMet project, three so-called high-level test field sites will be utilized.

Each of the sites will be used for the following purposes:

• Development of validation practices for CRNS methodology in outdoor conditions
• Joint measurement campaigns using different methods of soil moisture assessment:
  • point-scale soil moisture sensors
  • CRNS neutron probes
  • data from remote sensing methods
• Comparison of soil moisture measurement methods, their constraints and different spatial and temporal characteristics

Apulian Tavoliere

Organizing SoMMet partner: CNR
Region, Country: Apulia Region, Italy
Location (latitude-longitude of the centre): 41.460, 15.501
Land use: agricultural (tomato, durum wheat)

Further information:

• https://smosar.irea.cnr.it/dashboard/sites/apulia

Bondeno

Organizing SoMMet partner: UNIBO
Region, Country: Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy
Location (latitude-longitude of the centre): 44.8552, 11.3772
Land use: agricultural (walnut orchards)

Marquardt

Organizing SoMMet partner: UP DE
Site operator: Leibniz-Institut für Agrartechnik und Bioökonomie e.V. (ATB), Potsdam-Bornim
Region, Country: Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
Location (latitude-longitude of the centre): 52.466, 12.958
Land use: agricultural (crops, orchard, grass) 

Further information:

• https://www.atb-potsdam.de/en/research/research-infrastructure/soil-weather-crops
• https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/cosmicsense/about/field-sites/marquardt