Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) with a suspended 1 GHz monostatic horn antenna was deployed in the field for measurement of near-surface soil water contents Θ_v over bare soils of textures raging from sands to clays, and with different subsurface layering schemes. GPR waveform data used in Serbin and Or (2003) for surface reflection magnitude (SR) and propagation time (PT) Θ_v estimates were analyzed using techniques from Lambot et al. (2004) to extract Θ_v(z) at improved depth resolutions. GPR data were compared and calibrated against gravimetric measurements of Θ_v, TDR estimates of bulk soil dielectric permittivity %epsilon;_b(z and electrical conductivity σ, and soil temperature T(z). This method improves the applicability of GPR with a suspended horn antenna for agricultural applications by allowing it to map not only surface skin Θ_v derived from SR but also that of the root zone Θ_v(z) data.