Influence of foliage on radio path losses (PLs) for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) planning in orchards

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 454-465

  Vougioukas, S ^a   Anastassiu, H T ^b   Regen, C ^c   Zude, M ^c  

^a Univ of California   (United States)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SERRES   (Greece)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND BIOECONOMY ATB   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; FORESTRY; RADIO WAVES; SENSOR NODES; ZIGBEE;

ACCURATE MODELING; ESTABLISHED VEGETATIONS; EXPONENTIAL DECAY MODELS; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; FOREST ENVIRONMENTS; PARAMETER FITTING; POWER ATTENUATION; PROPAGATION PATHS;

ORCHARDS;

COMMUNICATION; FOLIAR ANALYSIS; FORESTS; LEAVES; ORCHARDS; RADIO WAVES; SENSORS;

PRUNUS DOMESTICA;

EID: 84881638226     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2012.08.011     Document Type: Article

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