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Sensor supported irrigation control of potatoes (SeBeK)
Project
Project code: ML-Referat 304/EIP-Agri-Nr.14
Contract period: 18.05.2016
- 15.08.2019
Budget: 782,791 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: farming practice/activity, water
The innovation project pursues a new approach to determine the actual drought stress and irrigation demand on the plant directly by measuring the stock‘s temperature. Plant populations that are provided with sufficient water show an evapotranspiration of more than 8 mm per day. The evaporation cools down the stocks, so that the temperature on the plant’s surface is few degrees cooler than the ambient temperature. Insufficient water supply causes stress, which reduces the transpiration of the plant and generates a higher stock‘s temperature. This temperature can rise up to 3 degrees above the ambient temperature. Within the scope of the project the temperature differences will be recorded contactless and extensively by using an infrared thermographic in order to optimize the irrigation management of the plants. The operational group accompanies the innovation project and attends the implementation in actual agricultural practice.
Section overview
Subjects
- Agricultural Engineering Plant Production
- Resource management
- Computer science
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences - Hochschule Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel -
