Wireless soil scout prototype radio signal reception compared to the attenuation model

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 372-381

  Tiusanen, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Radio wave; Soil Scout; Wireless

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE; MODEL TEST; RADIO WAVE; SIGNAL; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; TEMPORAL PERIOD;

EID: 71449121474     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-008-9096-7     Document Type: Article

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