Automated Soil Moisture Monitoring Wireless Sensor Network for Long-Term CalVal Applications英文文献资料.docVIP

Wireless Sensor Network, 2012, 4, 202-209 /10.4236/wsn.2012.48030 Published Online August 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/wsn) Automated Soil Moisture Monitoring Wireless Sensor Network for Long-Term Cal/Val Applications Aurelio Cano , José Luís A?ón , Candid Reig , Cristina Millán-Scheiding , Ernesto López-Baeza 1,2 1 1* 3 2 1 Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain Climatology from Satellites Group, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain Research Centre on Desertification-CIDE, CSIC-University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain 2 3 Email: * candid.reig@uv.es, aurelio.cano@uv.es, jose.anon@feasa.ie, lan@uv.es, ernesto.lopez@uv.es Received May 23, 2012; revised June 27, 2012; accepted July 13, 2012 ABSTRACT The design and development of a wireless sensor network for soil moisture measurement in an unlevelled 10 km × 10 km area, is described. It was specifically deployed for the characterization of a reference area, in campaigns of calibration and validation of the space mission SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity), but the system is easily extensible to monitor other climatic or environmental variables, as well as to other regions of ecological interest. The network con- sists of a number of automatic measurement stations, strategically placed following soil homogeneity and land use cri- teria. Every station includes acquisition, conditioning and communication systems. The electronics are battery operated with the help of solar cells, in order to have a total autonomous system. The collected data is then transmitted through long radio links, with ling ranges above 8 km. A standard PC linked to internet is finally used in order to control the whole network, to store the data, and to