The spectral calibration method for a crop nitrogen sensor

Sensor Review

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 48-56

  Ni, Jun ^a,b,c   Dong, Jifei ^a,c   Zhang, Jingchao ^d   Pang, Fangrong ^a,c   Cao, Weixing ^a,c   Zhu, Yan ^a,c  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Crop Production   (China)

^c Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for the Technology and Application of Internet of Things   (China)

^d AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Calibration; Crop nitrogen sensor; Optical; Standard detector; Standard gray plate

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; NITROGEN; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CALIBRATION PROBLEMS; CROP NITROGEN; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; OPTICAL; SENSOR CALIBRATION; SPECTRAL CALIBRATION; STANDARD DETECTORS;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84955466167     PISSN: 02602288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/SR-04-2015-0051     Document Type: Article

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