Evaluation and calibration of a soil moisture sensor for measuring poultry manure or litter moisture content

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting 2008, ASABE 2008

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages 4773-4780

  Mendes, Luciano Barreto ^a   Li, Hong ^b   Xin, Hongwei ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINA GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia emission; Poultry manure; Real time moisture content measurement

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CALIBRATION; DAIRIES; GROUNDWATER; MANURES; MEATS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS; SENSORS; SOIL MOISTURE; VEHICLES;

AMMONIA EMISSION; BROILER LITTERS; BULK DENSITIES; FIELD CALIBRATIONS; MANURE SOURCES; MEASUREMENT SENSORS; MOISTURE CONTENTS; MULTIVARIATE LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; OPERATING TEMPERATURES; OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE; POULTRY LITTERS; POULTRY MANURE; REAL-TIME MOISTURE CONTENT MEASUREMENT; SENSOR OUTPUTS; SOIL MOISTURE SENSORS; SOURCE TEMPERATURES;

MOISTURE CONTROL;

EID: 63049138986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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