A TDR-based measuring device for measuring the
dielectric constant (DC) of a medium (2), comprising: - a measuring probe (11) that can be brought into contact with the medium (2), - a
signal generation unit (12) designed to couple an edge-based measurement
signal (sHF) into the measuring probe (11) according to the TDR measurement principle, - an evaluation unit (13) designed to: ◯ receive the reflected edge-based measurement
signal (rHF) after reflection in the measuring probe (11), ◯ determine a signal
propagation time between
coupling and reception of the respective edge according to the TDR measurement principle, and determine the
dielectric constant (DC) based on the signal
propagation time, characterized by: - a filter unit (14) designed to: ◯ filter the emitted and / or the reflected edge-based measurement signal (sHF, rHF), and ◯ its filter type and / or to change at least one filter parameter (R, C), and an analysis unit (15) designed to◯ to determine a
correlation factor between the edge shape of the transmitted and received measurement signal (sHF, rHF), an SWR ratio, or a maximum curvature of the received measurement signal (rHF), and ◯ to adjust the filter type and / or at least one filter parameter (R, C) of the filter unit (14) such that the
correlation factor, the SWR ratio and / or the maximum curvature reaches a minimum value or converges to the minimum value.