Transmission of short-wave radiation by agricultural screens

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 317-327

  Möller, Markus ^a,c   Cohen, Shabtai ^a   Pirkner, Moran ^a   Israeli, Yair ^b   Tanny, Josef ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b Jordan Valley Banana Exp Station   (Israel)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; CROPS; TRANSMISSIONS;

AGRICULTURAL CROPS; ARRAY OF SENSORS; DIRECT AND DIFFUSE RADIATIONS; DIRECT RADIATIONS; DUST ACCUMULATION; RECTANGULAR HOLES; SCREEN DIMENSIONS; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION;

RADIATION;

EID: 78249277146     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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