Control of individual microsprinklers and fault detection strategies

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 85-99

  Coates, Robert W ^a   Delwiche, Michael J ^a   Brown, Patrick H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault detection; Irrigation; Microsprinkler; Orchard; Site specific; Spatially variable; Variable rate

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM; DETECTION METHOD; DRIP IRRIGATION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FRUIT PRODUCTION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; ORCHARD; SENSOR; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATER SUPPLY;

PRUNUS PERSICA NUCIPERSICA;

EID: 33744545166     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-006-9001-1     Document Type: Article

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