Spatial and temporal variation of temperature and oxygen concentration inside silage stacks

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 155-165

  Green, Ole ^a   Bartzanas, Thomas ^b   Løkke, Mette M ^a   Bochtis, Dionysis D ^a   Sørensen, Claus G ^a   Jørgensen, Ole J ^a   Tortajada, Vicent G ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Institute of Technology and Management of Agricultural Ecosystems   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES;

BIOMASS QUALITY; DIURNAL VARIATION; MONITORING THE TEMPERATURES; NETWORK CONFIGURATION; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

OXYGEN;

EID: 84855809923     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2011.11.008     Document Type: Article

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