scholarly journals Review of automatized meteorological stations use for agricultural purposes

2021 ◽  
Vol 937 (3) ◽  
pp. 032097
Author(s):  
I Dunaieva ◽  
V Vecherkov ◽  
Y Filina ◽  
V Popovych ◽  
E Barbotkina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Measurement Accuracy ◽  
Measured Data ◽  
Meteorological Conditions ◽  
Weather Station ◽  
Weather Stations ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Operational Data ◽  
Soil Moisture Reserves

Abstract The article deals with the questions of application and functioning of automated weather stations in agriculture. Digitalization of agriculture can significantly increase the efficiency of production and reduce the cost of manufacturing products by obtaining and accumulating information about the ongoing technological processes and making appropriate management decisions. A huge role is given to the possibility of obtaining operational data on the level of soil moisture reserves, the prevailing meteorological conditions, etc. in real time. The use of automated meteorological stations makes it possible to obtain data that can be used in the management of operations, requiring control and monitoring. This paper discusses the application and operation of automated meteorological stations in agriculture, and provides an analysis of the operation of the Davis Vantage Pro 2, Sokol-M and Meteobot® Pro weather stations in Krasnogvardeisky, Belogorsky and Saky regions. The analysis of weather station configurations, sensor installation methods, measurement accuracy, and more is made. The measured data was evaluated with the data, obtained from the weather stations of the WMO network. The prospects of further use of automated weather stations in agricultural monitoring tasks are considered.

scholarly journals Investigation on soil moisture reserves and meteorological conditions in relation to basic soil types in Bulgaria

Europa XXI ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 43-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veska Georgieva ◽  
Valentin Kazandjiev ◽  
Marek Degórski ◽  
Krzysztof Błażejczyk ◽  
Magdalena Kuchcik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Meteorological Conditions ◽  
Soil Types ◽  
Soil Moisture Reserves

scholarly journals Factors affecting in the use of weather stations data in predicting surface soil moisture for agricultural applications

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umesh Acharya ◽  
Aaron Lee M. Daigh ◽  
Peter G. Oduor
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Cover Crop ◽  
Crop Residue ◽  
Surface Soil ◽  
Agricultural Fields ◽  
Growth Stages ◽  
Weather Station ◽  
Surface Soil Moisture ◽  
Crop Type ◽  
Weather Stations

Weather stations often provide key information related to soil moisture, temperature and evaporation are used by farmers to decide farm operations of nearby agricultural fields. However, the site conditions at the weather stations where data are recorded may not be similar with these nearby fields. The objective of this study was to determine the level of discrepancies in surface soil moisture between weather stations and nearby agricultural fields based on 1) the soil texture, crop residue cover, crop type, growth stages and 2) temporal dependency of soil moisture to recent rainfall and evaporation rates. Soil moisture from 25 weather stations in the North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network (NDAWN) and 75 nearby fields were measured biweekly during the 2019 growing season in Red River Valley. Field characteristics including soil texture, crop residue cover, crop type and growth stages along with rainfall and potential evapotranspiration were collected during the study period. The regression analysis between surface soil moisture at weather station and nearby field showed higher values for corn at V10 stage (r2=0.92) and for wheat at flowering stage (r2=0.68) and opposite was observed with soybean. We found the regression coefficient of soil moisture with four-day cumulative rainfall slightly increased to 0.51 with an increase in percent residue cover resulting in a decreased root mean square error (RMSE) to 0.063 m3 m-3. In general, we observed that surface soil moisture at weather stations could reasonably predict moisture in nearby agricultural fields considering crop type, soil type, weather, and distance from weather station.

Use of cold tolerant eucalyptus species as a partial replacement for southern mixed hardwoods

TAPPI Journal ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 29-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER W. HART ◽  
DALE E. NUTTER
Keyword(s):  
Potential Method ◽  
The United States ◽  
Partial Replacement ◽  
Growth Time ◽  
Eucalyptus Species ◽  
Cold Tolerant ◽  
Hardwood Pulp ◽  
Time Required ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Operational Data

During the last several years, the increasing cost and decreasing availability of mixed southern hardwoods have resulted in financial and production difficulties for southern U.S. mills that use a significant percentage of hardwood kraft pulp. Traditionally, in the United States, hardwoods are not plantation grown because of the growth time required to produce a quality tree suitable for pulping. One potential method of mitigating the cost and supply issues associated with the use of native hardwoods is to grow eucalyptus in plantations for the sole purpose of producing hardwood pulp. However, most of the eucalyptus species used in pulping elsewhere in the world are not capable of surviving in the southern U.S. climate. This study examines the potential of seven different cold-tolerant eucalyptus species to be used as replacements for, or supplements to, mixed southern hardwoods. The laboratory pulping and bleaching aspects of these seven species are discussed, along with pertinent mill operational data. Selected mill trial data also are reviewed.

A Harmonic Source Location Method Based on PMU Measurements in Distribution Network

2015 ◽  
Vol 775 ◽  
pp. 409-414
Author(s):  
Bing Jun Li ◽  
Su Quan Zhou ◽  
Xiao Xiang Lun
Keyword(s):  
Power System ◽  
State Estimation ◽  
Distribution Network ◽  
Measured Data ◽  
Optimal Measurement ◽  
Location Method ◽  
Measurement Placement ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
Harmonic Source ◽  
The Cost

It is of great importance to identify the location of the harmonic sources for the harmonic governance in the power system. Applied with optimal measurement placement (OMP) and harmonic state estimation (HSE), this paper presents a novel process based on PMU measurements to locate the harmonic sources in the distribution network. Considering the cost and the observability, the OMP can provide a scheme of the measurement placement with the minimum number of PMU measurements. In order to simplify the HSE equation, the measured data are converted to the form of voltage by the method proposed in this paper.By solving the HSE equation, the location and magnitude of the harmonic source are evaluated. The methodology is applied to the IEEE 33-bus system, and the obtained results are properly analyzed.

scholarly journals NOAA Satellite Soil Moisture Operational Product System (SMOPS) Version 3.0 Generates Higher Accuracy Blended Satellite Soil Moisture

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 2861
Author(s):  
Jifu Yin ◽  
Xiwu Zhan ◽  
Jicheng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Product System ◽  
Global Soil ◽  
One Stop ◽  
Satellite Sensors ◽  
Blended Data

Soil moisture plays a vital role for the understanding of hydrological, meteorological, and climatological land surface processes. To meet the need of real time global soil moisture datasets, a Soil Moisture Operational Product System (SMOPS) has been developed at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to produce a one-stop shop for soil moisture observations from all available satellite sensors. What makes the SMOPS unique is its near real time global blended soil moisture product. Since the first version SMOPS publicly released in 2010, the SMOPS has been updated twice based on the users’ feedbacks through improving retrieval algorithms and including observations from new satellite sensors. The version 3.0 SMOPS has been operationally released since 2017. Significant differences in climatological averages lead to remarkable distinctions in data quality between the newest and the older versions of SMOPS blended soil moisture products. This study reveals that the SMOPS version 3.0 has overwhelming advantages of reduced data uncertainties and increased correlations with respect to the quality controlled in situ measurements. The new version SMOPS also presents more robust agreements with the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative (ESA_CCI) soil moisture datasets. With the higher accuracy, the blended data product from the new version SMOPS is expected to benefit the hydrological, meteorological, and climatological researches, as well as numerical weather, climate, and water prediction operations.

Detecting Thread Features Based on Digital Image Processing Techniques

2014 ◽  
Vol 889-890 ◽  
pp. 1107-1110
Author(s):  
Han Ming Cai ◽  
Pei Yao Wang ◽  
Xiao Mei Song
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Digital Image Processing ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Measurement Accuracy ◽  
Measuring Method ◽  
Image Processing Techniques ◽  
Basic Image ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Processing Techniques ◽  
Gauge Measurement

Thread features of the traditional measuring method mainly adopts working gauge measurement, due to limitations in the traditional thread features measurement accuracy is relatively low, the efficiency is low, the cost is high. The thread features detection method based on digital image processing techniques using CCD to obtain basic image of thread, processing the thread image, extracting thread outline, calculating thread features through the computer, improves the efficiency, saves the cost.

Detection and Analysis of Rats’ Bioelectromagnetic Signal

2014 ◽  
Vol 536-537 ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
Hong Long Cao ◽  
Fen Ju Qin ◽  
Xue Guan Liu ◽  
He Ming Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Automatic System ◽  
Measurement Method ◽  
Measurement Accuracy ◽  
Biological Activities ◽  
Measurement Data ◽  
Measured Data ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Frequency Window ◽  
Window Effects

In this paper, we designed an automatic system and automatic test software, and they can carry out Kunming rats bioelectromagnetic measurement in standard status and anesthesia automatically in anechoic chamber where the electromagnetic field outside is shielded, the reflection wave is absorbed, and the measurement accuracy will be improved. We get a great number of measurement data with frequency-sweep measurement method. The mean and standard deviation of amplitudes vs. frequencies is calculated and analyzed. The results show the measurement method is feasible. We have plotted the means of measured data as multiple sets of Y values in a series of bars with standard deviations bars included and distributed in the frequency axis of X. It is found that the fluctuation of the mean and standard deviation in some frequencies is not evident which may explain frequency window effects, while in other frequencies, such a fluctuation can be obviously observed, which may suggest that bioelectromagnetic signal is influenced by biological activities (standard and anaesthesia status) in these frequency points.

Real-Time Micro-Fluidic Chip Pressure Control System Base on the Optical Interference

2014 ◽  
Vol 494-495 ◽  
pp. 1274-1277
Author(s):  
Kan Liu ◽  
Hao You
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Measurement System ◽  
Interference Fringe ◽  
Pressure Control ◽  
Measured Data ◽  
Optical Interference ◽  
Interference Fringes ◽  
Pressure Control System

This article introduces a measurement system based on LabVIEW used for optical interference fringe on micro-fluidic chips. This system mainly uses cameras to capture real-time images of wedge interference fringe on micro-fluidic chips, then the collected images will be binarized by LabVIEW. The processed images will be divided by zone , determine the flatness and gap thickness of the micro-fluidic chips by interference fringes with different directions of deflection and numbers. Finally, feedback from measured data will be used to adjust the flatness and gap thickness of micro-fluidic chips in order to meet the requirement of tests.

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