Abstract
As a physical property of soil, magnetic susceptibility (MS) has been widely used to delineate soil drainage conditions over the past two decades, where all MS values were derived from laboratory measurements. In this paper, the ability of an electromagnetic induction (EMI) instrument, Geonics EM38, in in-field measurements of apparent magnetic susceptibility (MSa or κa) of topsoil was tested on six selected soil profiles having different drainage conditions. The MSa data, measured in both vertical and horizontal coil configurations of EM38, were then inverted using an iterative 1-D inversion procedure to calculate real volume MS of soil layers up to 1 m depth. Moreover, volume and mass-specific MS of the soil profiles were directly measured in laboratory by employing Bartington MS2C and MS2B sensors applied on core and dried soil samples, respectively, collected at the soil profiles. Comparing the results revealed that volume MS profiles derived from inversion of MSa data were positively correlated with MS profiles measured in laboratory, especially at topsoil. It was also found that MS values in poorly drained soil profile were lower than those of a well-drained profile. So, considering that EMI methods are fast, precise and cost-efficient, they would be preferred over conventional methods for delineating soil drainage conditions if using soil MS assessment is considered as soil drainage criteria.
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