Moisture determination with an artificial neural network from microwave measurements on wheat

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 1997, Pages 1238-1241

  Bartley, Philip G ^a   McClendon, Ronald W ^a   Nelson, Stuart O ^b   Trabelsi, Samir ^b  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b RUSSELL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOISTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MOISTURE DETERMINATION;

BULK DENSITY; HARD RED WINTER WHEAT; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; RADIATING ELEMENTS; TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENTS;

MOISTURE DETERMINATION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

HARD RED WINTER WHEAT;

EID: 0030711183     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMTC.1997.612396     Document Type: Conference Paper

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