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Abdul Salam, an assistant professor of computer and information technology, has authored a book titled “Signals in the Soil.” The book addresses the key existing network technologies and those currently in development in three major areas of Signals in the Soil (SitS): wireless underground communications, subsurface sensing, and antennas in the soil medium. It gives advanced treatment of Internet of Underground Things (IOUT) custom applications of variable-rate technologies in the field of decision agriculture, and covers protocol design and wireless underground channel modeling. It also provides a detailed set of path loss, antenna, and wireless underground channel measurements in various novel Signals in the Soil (SitS) testbed settings. The hardcover book is available on the websites for Springer, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. More information is available here.