Calibration of a microwave system for measuring grain moisture content

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 778-783

  Ben Slima, Mohamed ^b   Morawski, Roman Z ^a,c   Kraszewski, Andrzej W ^a,d   Barwicz, Andrzej ^b   Nelson, Stuart O ^d  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

^c WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^d RUSSELL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PHASE SHIFT; TEMPERATURE;

GRAIN BULK DENSITY; INFLUENCE QUANTITY TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE SYSTEM;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 0032679937     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.772221     Document Type: Article

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