Distributed data acquisition system for runoff monitoring and automated water sampler control

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 591-597

  Burcham, T N ^a   Wren, D G ^a   Wooten, J R ^a   Varco, J J ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal waste; Data acquisition; Distributed computing; Instrumentation; Runoff; Swine

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MANURES; REMOTE SENSING;

DISTRIBUTED DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS (DDAS); WATER SAMPLER CONTROL;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF;

EID: 0032206902     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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