Wireless Soil Scout prototype radio signal quality compared to attenuation model

Precision Agriculture 2007 - Papers Presented at the 6th European Conference on Precision Agriculture, ECPA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 397-404

  Tiusanen, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Radio wave; Soil scout; Wireless

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION MODEL; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; SIGNAL ATTENUATION MODELS; TEMPERATURE DATA; THRESHOLD LEVELS; TRANSMISSION FAILURES; TRANSMISSION POWER; VEGETATION CONDITION;

RADIO; RADIO WAVES; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 63049105402     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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