Long term expanding-disk rain sensor accuracy

Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 16-20

  Meeks, Leah ^a,b   Dukes, Michael D ^b   Migliaccio, Kati White ^b   Cardenas Lailhacar, Bernard ^b  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Irrigation; Irrigation scheduling; Rain sensors; Residential irrigation

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE RESPONSE; AUTOMATIC IRRIGATION SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; FLORIDA; HYGROSCOPIC MATERIALS; IRRIGATION SCHEDULING; NEGATIVE VALUES; RAINFALL DATA; RESIDENTIAL IRRIGATION; SENSOR ACCURACY; SENSOR MODEL; SETPOINTS; WATER SAVING;

DRIERS (MATERIALS); IRRIGATION; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; RATING; SENSORS;

RAIN;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; INSTALLATION; IRRIGATION; MONITORING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; SENSOR;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857196789     PISSN: 07339437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)IR.1943-4774.0000381     Document Type: Article

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