HR: 1340h
AN: B33D-1576 [Abstracts]
TI: Application of Wireless Sensor Networks to measure the plant and soil characteristics within the transpiration process
AU: * Kuo, C
EM: n8890102@ccmail.ncku.edu.tw
AF: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 3700 Ohara
St. 941Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
AU: * Kuo, C
EM: n8890102@ccmail.ncku.edu.tw
AF: Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, National Cheng-Kung University, No.1,
University Rd., Tainan City, 704, Taiwan
AU: Liang, X
EM: xuliang@engr.pitt.edu
AF: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 3700 Ohara
St. 941Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
AU: Davis, T
EM: twd2@pitt.edu
AF: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 3700 Ohara
St. 941Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
AU: Yu, P
EM: yups@mail.ncku.edu.tw
AF: Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, National Cheng-Kung University, No.1,
University Rd., Tainan City, 704, Taiwan
AB:
Transpiration plays an important role in the land-atmospheric interactions. The performance of a land-surface
model in the land-atmospheric system can be enhanced by the improvement of the representation of the internal
phenomenon of the plant and the soil behavior during transpiration. This study aims to measure plant¡¦s internal
phenomenon and soil behavior during the transpiration process by using a wireless sensor network. Sensor
motes, as a part of the new wireless sensor network technology, have the ability to connect the observation
instruments to collect the data. The sensor mote was designed with low power consumption and it is able to
deliver the observation data to the base station through the wireless network. The programmable sensor mote
also has the ability to work under different time intervals or trigger after certain events. This study tries to connect
the measure instruments to the wireless sensor motes to measure the phenomenon inside the tree and within
the soil. Initial results of this investigation will be presented and discussed.
DE: 0452 Instruments and techniques
DE: 0476 Plant ecology (1851)
DE: 1813 Eco-hydrology
DE: 1818 Evapotranspiration
DE: 1866 Soil moisture
SC: Biogeosciences [B]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting