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IRRIGATION & WATER MANAGEMENT
SAVING
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New precision ag project
would help farmers
measure plant moisture
The base robot for the new plant-moisture-measuring system researchers are developing will navigate rows of crops to reach individual leaves and stems. Photos: UC Merced
By Lorena Anderson
University of California, Merced
One of the biggest challenges in
managing crops, especially in large
fields, is knowing how much water each
section of a field needs. Determining
that accurately is a cumbersome process
that requires people to hand-pluck
individual leaves from plants, put them
in pressure chambers and apply air
pressure to see when water begins to
leak from the leaf stems.
That kind of testing is time-consuming
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so many areas of a field each day
and cannot test as frequently as they
should.
Computer Science and Engineering
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Environmental Engineering Professor
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Konstantinos Karydis and Amit K.
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California (UC), Riverside recently
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from the USDA through the National
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