Effects of coating, deployment angle, and compass orientation on performance of electronic wetness sensors during dew periods

Plant Disease

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 192-197

  Lau, Yewah F ^a   Gleason, Mark L ^b   Zriba, Narjess ^b   Taylor, S Elwynn ^b   Hinz, Paul N ^c  

^a CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

Leaf wetness; Wetness duration

Indexed keywords

COATING PROCESS; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; MEASUREMENT; SENSOR; TEMPERATURE; TOMATO;

EID: 0033968365     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS.2000.84.2.192     Document Type: Article

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