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Timely and reliable information on soil-moisture over large areas is useful in meteorology, hydrology, and agriculture. In meteorology, atmospheric models require information about energy flux at the earth’s surface. The two types of energy exchanged at the surface are sensible heat and latent heat. Sensible heat absorbed and released by the soil is for the most part a small component of the surface energy. When latent heat is considered, some measurement of soil wetness is needed in order to relate actual evapotranspiration to potential evaporation rate.

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