This book provides an in-depth coverage of the most recent developments
in the field of wireless underground communications, from both
theoretical and practical perspectives. The authors identify technical
challenges and discuss recent results related to improvements in
wireless underground communications and soil sensing in Internet of
Underground Things (IOUT). The book covers both existing network
technologies and those currently in development in three major areas of
SitS: wireless underground communications, subsurface sensing, and
antennas in the soil medium. The authors explore novel applications of
Internet of Underground Things in digital agriculture and autonomous
irrigation management domains. The book is relevant to wireless
researchers, academics, students, and decision agriculture
professionals. The contents of the book are arranged in a comprehensive
and easily accessible format.
- Focuses on fundamental issues of wireless underground communication
and subsurface sensing;
- Includes advanced treatment of IOUT custom applications of
variable-rate technologies in the field of decision agriculture, and
covers protocol design and wireless underground channel modeling;
- Provides a detailed set of path loss, antenna, and wireless
underground channel measurements in various novel Signals in the Soil
(SitS) testbed settings.
