The Design of Field Information Detection System Based on Microcomputer

Precision agriculture is an informational agriculture, and is the developing direction of modern agriculture. How to acquire information is the key problem of precision agriculture. The objective of this research is to design a system to obtain information from field. This system consists of two par...

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Published in2006 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering pp. 156 - 160
Main Authors Zhengjun Qiu, Jingyuan Mao, Yong He
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.10.2006
Subjects
Agriculture
Atmospheric measurements
Conductivity measurement
Electric variables measurement
Humidity measurement
Instruments
Microcomputers
Moisture measurement
Position measurement
Soil measurements
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Summary:Precision agriculture is an informational agriculture, and is the developing direction of modern agriculture. How to acquire information is the key problem of precision agriculture. The objective of this research is to design a system to obtain information from field. This system consists of two parts. One is a portable instrument based on MSC-51, which can be used to measure multiple information of field. It includes longitude and latitude of the measurement position, moisture, pH value and electric conductivity (EC) of soil, temperature and humidity of atmosphere and intensity of illumination. The other part is a piece of software based on Visual Basic, which can be used to communicate with the portable instrument and process data. The validation results showed that this system could rapidly and accurately acquire information of filed
ISBN:9781424403103
1424403103
ISSN:2161-8070
2161-8089
DOI:10.1109/COASE.2006.326872