A two-point iteration method to predict canopy water content from RF loss

Author(s)
Peden, Sonam
Bradbury, Ronald C
Lamb, David
Hedley, Mark
Publication Date
2021-12
Abstract
<p>Previous studies have investigated the attenuation of 2.4 GHz radio waves and vegetation, and generated a model to predict RF loss in response to the effective water path (EWP) of both packed leaves and whole tree canopies. Owing to the absence of phase information in the radio signal strength (RSS) it is not possible to directly invert the model to elicit EWP. This paper builds upon previous work and proposes a two-point iteration methodology to predict actual gravimetric water content (M<sub>g</sub>) of single tree canopies from RF loss. An investigation for sample tree canopies (including two trees in series) demonstrated M<sub>g</sub> explained 72% of the variance in measured RF loss.</p>
Citation
Smart Agricultural Technology, v.1, p. 1-4
ISSN
2772-3755
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Language
en
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
Title
A two-point iteration method to predict canopy water content from RF loss
Type of document
Journal Article
Entity Type
Publication

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