MAIN TOPICS:
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The physics of
signal transduction
How sensors convert an environmental
parameter into an electric signal
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Basic electronics
needed to connect sensors with dataloggers.
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Data collection
and processing
Programming dataloggers to measure
sensors
ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS ADDRESSED
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Temperature: air,
soil, water. Thermocouples, thermistors, PRTs
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Surface
temperature (infrared radiation): canopy, soil, water, snow,
roadway infrared radiometers
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Pressure:
barometric, water potential transducers, tensiometers
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Humidity:
absolute, relative psychrometers, capacitance
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Radiation: solar
(shortwave), longwave net, photosynthetic, UV thermopiles,
photodiodes (silicon-cells)
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Wind: speed,
direction anemometers, heated needles, vanes
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Precipitation:
amount, intensity, duration tipping buckets, mass balances
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Soil water
content: TDR/TDT, capacitance
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CO2, O2, and
other gases: IR absorption, galvanic cells, polarographic cells
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Spectroradiometric imaging of plant canopies: spectroradiometers
Additional Topics:
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Advanced
datalogger programming
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Wireless sensors
and networks
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Measurement
applications: special project on measurements in relation to
their thesis project.
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