Knowledge of soil hydrological attributes of the land surface is very important for estimating rainfall\runoff relationships, evaporation, heat flux across the soil\atmosphere boundary, etc. This investigation involves an analytical solution developed for Burgers' equation for estimating soil water content (and pressure head) at the soil surface as a function of time under 1-D drainage conditions. The diffusivity and hydraulic conductivity functions from Fujita are used in the solution. The main objectives of this study are 1) to analyze the effects of using hydraulic functions other than the Fujita forms on water content at the land surface subject to 1-D drainage beginning with saturated soil and 2) to invert the analytical solution to estimate soil hydraulic properties of the land surface using appropriate data. Measurements of both soil water content and pressure head obtained in the laboratory will be used to fulfill the second objective. A surface TDR probe and a novel disc tensiometer will be used to collect the data.