ABSTRACT Although the hydrological importance of water infiltration into the soil and surface runoff is well known, manual measurement of these processes, especially at the plot and hillslope scales, is laborious and requires a trained team. This study aimed to develop prototypes with the tipping bucket principle for the automatic monitoring of surface runoff at a plot scale (14.5 × 3 m). In total, 18 prototypes were built and installed in an experiment with different soil covers. Aspects of the […]