Assessing the Ability of Dropletscan™ to Analyze Spray Droplets from a Ground Operated Sprayer

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 525-530

  Wolf, R E ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Droplet size; DropletScan software; Spray drift; Venturi nozzles

Indexed keywords

DROPLET SIZE; SPRAY DROPLETS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HERBICIDES; NOZZLES; SCANNING; SPRAYING;

AGRICULTURE;

VENTURI;

EID: 0347380876     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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