Towards development of on-line soil moisture content sensor using a fibre-type NIR spectrophotometer

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 80, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 171-183

  Mouazen, Abdul Mounem ^a,b   De Baerdemaeker, Josse ^b   Ramon, Herman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALEPPO   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Moisture content; On line measurement; Sensor; Spectrophotometer

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; IRRIGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; SEED;

OPTICAL UNITS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE ANALYSIS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERROR OF PREDICTION (RMSEP); SITE-SPECIFIC MEASUREMENT;

SOIL MECHANICS;

MEASUREMENT METHOD; SENSOR; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ERRORS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IRRIGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE CONTENT; PHOTOMETERS; REFLECTION; SEEDS; SOIL MECHANICS;

EID: 12344332873     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2004.03.022     Document Type: Article

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