The low frequency (below 150 Hz) acoustic ground impedance was determi
ned on a large uncultivated field using an impedance meter, the probe
microphone method, a modified Biot-Stoll type calculation, and the pha
se gradient method The impedance measured with the impedance meter has
lower real and imaginary parts than the impedance determined from the
probe microphone measurements. The modified Biot-Stoll type descripti
on of acoustic to seismic transfer based upon seismic and acoustic mea
surements gives an impedance which is consistent with probe microphone
measurements. The impedance measured by the phase gradient method is
largely consistent with the other measurements, but shows much more st
ructure. This structure is believed to be caused by unwanted reflectio
ns during the measurement procedure rather than by actual structure in
the ground impedance undetected by the other methods.