Soil calcium and pH monitoring sensor system

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4658-4663

  Lemos, Sherlan G ^a   Nogueira, Ana Rita A ^b   Torre Neto, André ^b   Parra, Aleix ^c   Alonso, Julian ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^c Grup de Sensors I Biosensors   (Spain)

Author keywords

Calcium; In situ soil analysis; pH; Potentiometric sensor; Precision agriculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250724286     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf063746a     Document Type: Article

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