Craft By Zen

Low-Cost Groundwater Detection

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For Science Hack Day 2014, our team created a low-cost groundwater detection is necessary to measure groundwater usage on a wide scale.

The following is from the presentation given at Science Hack Day.

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Groundwater spacing

Space electrodes evenly

Groundwater outer distance

Inject current in OUTER pair

Groundwater inner distance

Measure voltage across INNER pair

Groundwater depth

Depth:

z = a / 2

Groundwater resistivity

Resistivity:

ρ = 2 π a V/I

ρ low = WATER!
ρ high = DRY!

Groundwater distance to depth

As distance a increases, the depth of signal increases

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Groundwater prototype

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