Determining moisture content of wheat with an artificial neural network from microwave transmission measurements

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 123-126

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

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dielectric; Microwave measurements; Moisture content; Neural networks; Permittivity

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE POWER TRANSMISSION; MOISTURE CONTROL;

MOISTURE CONTENT;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0031988378     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.728803     Document Type: Article

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