Air quality monitoring and on-site computer system for livestock and poultry environment studies

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 937-947

  Ni, J Q ^b   Heber, A J ^b   Darr, M J ^a   Lim, T T ^b   Diehl, C A ^b   Bogan, B W ^b  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AirDAC; Control; Data acquisition; Instrumentation; LabVIEW; Measurement; Methodology; Software

Indexed keywords

AIRDAC; INSTRUMENTATION; LABVIEW; METHODOLOGY; SOFTWARE;

AGRICULTURE; AIR QUALITY; COMPUTER CONTROL; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INSTRUMENTS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MONITORING; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; RESEARCH; SAMPLING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

AGRICULTURAL EMISSION; AIR QUALITY; DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HEALTH IMPACT; LIVESTOCK FARMING; ODOR; PARTICULATE MATTER; POULTRY; SOFTWARE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

EID: 67650511444     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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