Abstract:
An understanding of the infiltration of water into soil is very important for irrigation
engineers, to ensure optimum use of water resources.
Infiltration into the soil under unsaturated and saturated conditions are often discussed
in the modeling of water resources systems.
Similarly drainage of water under varying conditions of saturation reflecting drainage
from irrigation, drainage during floods arresting threats of salinity are also challenge
faced by many practicing engineers.
These have resulted great concerns in the estimation of infiltration parameters.
The determination of infiltration parameters are based on either laboratory
experiments or on insitu testing. Due to the most likely non-representativeness of
laboratory samples, irrigation engineers often prefer insitu testing to estimate
infiltration parameters.
There are various insitu methods or field methods used for the measurement of
infiltration. This research was conducted to study the field methods used to estimate
infiltration
