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In this context, the effective dielectric constant of the soil is a key variable to quantify the land surface properties. We propose a new approach for the effective dielectric constant of the multiphase soil that is based on an arithmetic average of the dielectric constants of the land-surface components with damping. The results show, on average, better agreement with experimental data than previous approaches. Furthermore, the proposed new model overcomes the theoretical limitation of previous models in the incorporation of non-physical parameters to simulate measured data experimentally with satisfactory accuracy. For microwave remote sensing such as SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive), SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) and AMSR-E (Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS), the physical-based model in our study showed a 23\u201335% RMSE (root-mean-square error) reduction compared to the most prevalent refractive mixing model in the prediction of the dielectric constant for the real and imaginary part, respectively. Furthermore, in radiowave bands used in portable soil sensors such as TDR (time-domain reflectometer) and GPR (ground-penetrating radar) the new dielectric mixing model reduced RMSE by up to 53% in the prediction of the dielectric constant. We found that the permittivity over the saturation point (porosity of dry soil) has a very different and varying pattern compared to that measured in the unsaturated condition. However, in our study, this pattern was mathematically derived from the same mixing rule applied for the unsaturated condition. 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