Characterization of Soils Using Microwave Radiation

The aim of this study is to characterize of soils using microwave radiation by the reflection techniques. The sample of soils was collected in Northern Peninsular of Malaysia. There are six types of soil have been indentified, which, sand, clay, loam, silty clay loam, silty loam and clay loam. We use the transmission of microwave using Gunn Diode Transmitter with frequency of 10.525 GHz and the pipette method. The result shows that, the soil type can be indentified using intensity values based on the percentages of the clay. The proposed technique also can be used to characterize soils using by microwave radiation