Development of an eletronic multi-sensor for measuring the humidity, temperature and electric conductivity of the soil / Desenvolvimento de um multi-sensor eletronico para medida da umidade, temperatura e condutividade eletrica do solo

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2008

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The implementation of precision agriculture techniques requires the use of sensors which can measure the characteristics of the soil. In this work it was designed and fabricated a multi-sensor probe, capable of measuring the electrical conductivity, the volumetric humidity, and the temperature of the soil, using a four probes device. The electrical conductivity of the soil is measured using the conventionalWenner array method, where a self-calibration circuit was designed to avoid the usually necessary initial calibration of the Wenner array. The volumetric humidity is obtained by an indirect measurement, where the thermal conductivity of the soil is evaluated by applying heat pulses in one probe of the sensor, and measuring the resulting temperature increase in an adjacent probe. It was also developed an automatic measurement and data acquisition system that allows the characterization and calibration of the sensors. The obtained results show that the Wenner array is an useful tool for measuring the electric conductivity of the soil, and that the evaluation of the thermal conductivity of the soil using heat pulses and measuring the variation of temperature can accurately determine the humidity of the soil. Keywords: Sensors, precision agriculture, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, soil moisture

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condutividade termica sensors agricultura de precisão solos - umidade precision agriculture soil moisture condutividade eletrica thermal conductivity electrical conductivity sensores

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