Real-time evaluation of corn leaf water content based on the electrical property of leaf》.pdf

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 112 (2015) 102–109 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Computers and Electronics in Agriculture journal homepage: /locate/compag Real-time evaluation of corn leaf water content based on the electrical property of leaf Lihua Zheng, Zhuo Wang, Hong Sun, Man Zhang, Minzan Li ⇑ Key Laboratory of Modern Precision Agriculture System Integration Research, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, PR China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Water is indispensable to plants and the shortage of such critical resource leads to a decline in land pro- Received 5 April 2014 ductivity and yield loss. Leaf water content is an important factor to show water scarcity in farmland. Received in revised form 3 October 2014 Since the physiological electrical property of plants was found to have relation with leaf water content, Accepted 3 November 2014 a detector of plant electrical property based on the Four-Electrode method was thus developed. It con- Available online 26 November 2014 sisted of four probes, two current probes injecting constant alternating current into the object and two voltage probes measuring the voltage drop between two electrodes. The voltage drop was then used to Keywords: reflect the electrical property and evaluate the water content of plant leaves. Corn was selected as the Precision agriculture Water content