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Soil mechanics

We know what it’s like when the pressure’s on—when stability decisions can’t wait, and bad data isn’t an option. When lives, infrastructure, and budgets are at stake, manual methods and inconsistent results only slow you down. You need data that’s as precise and efficient as your decisions demand. METER’s automated lab and field solutions eliminate error-prone processes and reduce time in the workflow—giving you accurate, repeatable measurements backed by decades of soil science. So instead of spending time troubleshooting or re-running tests, you can focus on interpreting results and moving your project forward.

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Soil water retention curve (SWRC)

When it comes to slope stability, seepage, and unsaturated flow, you can’t manage what you can’t measure accurately. A precise soil water retention curve (SWRC) reveals the critical relationship between soil moisture and suction—defining how water moves, drains, and holds within your profile. METER delivers the tools and expertise to generate high-resolution SWRCs, giving geotechnical engineers the insight to predict soil behavior, assess stability, and model water movement through the unsaturated zone—with confidence, not assumptions.

Soil water retention curve (SWRC)

Soil hydraulic properties

Better designs start with better data. Whether you're predicting water movement, assessing slope stability, or modeling environmental impact, everything depends on knowing how water behaves in the soils beneath your project. METER provides the tools and expertise to measure soil hydraulic properties with industry-leading accuracy—in the field or in the lab. So you can design, model, and make decisions with the confidence that your data is solid—and your structure is built on more than assumptions.

Saturated hydraulic conductivity

Unsaturated hydraulic conductivity

Get accurate, in situ hydraulic conductivity measurements with less water and simpler processes using SATURO and the Mini Disk Infiltrometer

Soil particle size analysis

You have to know your soil to predict its behavior. From slope design to drainage performance, the success of your project depends on how well you understand the material you’re building on. Particle size distribution shapes everything—strength, permeability, compaction, and water movement. METER’s soil particle size analysis solutions give you precise, repeatable insight into how your soil will behave under pressure, over time, and in changing conditions—so you can design smarter, mitigate risk, and move forward with confidence.

Automated soil particle size analysis

Soil moisture

It’s not just how much water is there—it’s how it behaves. Understanding soil moisture means more than measuring volume. For geotechnical engineers, you need to know how tightly water is held in the soil—and how that affects strength, stability, and movement. METER offers a range of research-grade sensors that let you build a system tailored to your site—measuring both volumetric water content and soil suction to give you a complete picture of soil-water interactions, from saturation to slope failure risk.

Volumetric water content (VWC)

Soil suction/soil water potential

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ZENTRA System

Customize your data collection and logging solution by combining multiple METER sensors with the ZL6 Data Logger and ZENTRA Cloud. ZENTRA stores your data in the cloud, allowing easy access to your data and near-real-time reports from all of your data loggers.

Avoid costly field visits by accessing your data from any web-connected device. Analyze it with ZENTRA Cloud’s built-in visualization tools, and easily share insights without tracking down log files on individual computers.

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LABROS System

Streamline your laboratory analyses and reduce human error using the innovative LABROS soil science laboratory collection. Perform automated particle size analysis, generate soil moisture release curves, or measure thermal and hydraulic conductivity with METER laboratory instruments designed to produce accurate analyses in a fraction of the time of other methods.

Even better, LABROS instruments can be combined to perform all of these analyses from a single sample, saving time and reducing measurement errors due to variations in sample characteristics.

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LABROS-capable laboratory instruments from METER, including WP4C, KSAT, VARIOS, and PARIO

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"What we’re doing with our METER monitoring stations is not super complicated. It involves a plan of what you want to get out of it. The same method could be applied anywhere, really."
Professor of Geology Stephen Hughes, PhD | University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

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