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Assessing the Crop-Water Status in Almond (Prunus dulcis Mill.) Trees via Thermal Imaging Camera Connected to Smartphone

Different tools are being implemented in order to improve the water management in agricultural irrigated areas of semiarid environments. Thermography has been progressively introduced as a promising technique for irrigation scheduling and the assessing of crop-water status, especially when deficit i...

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Autores principales: García-Tejero, Iván Francisco, Ortega-Arévalo, Carlos José, Iglesias-Contreras, Manuel, Moreno, José Manuel, Souza, Luciene, Tavira, Simón Cuadros, Durán-Zuazo, Víctor Hugo
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5948678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29614740
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18041050
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author García-Tejero, Iván Francisco
Ortega-Arévalo, Carlos José
Iglesias-Contreras, Manuel
Moreno, José Manuel
Souza, Luciene
Tavira, Simón Cuadros
Durán-Zuazo, Víctor Hugo
author_facet García-Tejero, Iván Francisco
Ortega-Arévalo, Carlos José
Iglesias-Contreras, Manuel
Moreno, José Manuel
Souza, Luciene
Tavira, Simón Cuadros
Durán-Zuazo, Víctor Hugo
author_sort García-Tejero, Iván Francisco
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description Different tools are being implemented in order to improve the water management in agricultural irrigated areas of semiarid environments. Thermography has been progressively introduced as a promising technique for irrigation scheduling and the assessing of crop-water status, especially when deficit irrigation is being implemented. However, an important limitation is related to the cost of the actual cameras, this being a severe limitation to its practical usage by farmers and technicians. This work evaluates the potential and the robustness of a thermal imaging camera that is connected to smartphone (Flir One) recently developed by Flir Systems Inc. as a first step to assess the crop water status. The trial was developed in mature almond (Prunus dulcis Mill.) trees that are subjected to different irrigation treatments. Thermal information obtained by the Flir One camera was deal with the thermal information obtained with a conventional Thermal Camera (Flir SC660) with a high resolution, and subsequently, confronted with other related plant physiological parameters (leaf water potential, Ψ(leaf), and stomatal conductance, g(s)). Thermal imaging camera connected to smartphone provided useful information in estimating the crop-water status in almond trees, being a potential promising tool to accelerate the monitoring process and thereby enhance water-stress management of almond orchards.
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spelling pubmed-59486782018-05-17 Assessing the Crop-Water Status in Almond (Prunus dulcis Mill.) Trees via Thermal Imaging Camera Connected to Smartphone García-Tejero, Iván Francisco Ortega-Arévalo, Carlos José Iglesias-Contreras, Manuel Moreno, José Manuel Souza, Luciene Tavira, Simón Cuadros Durán-Zuazo, Víctor Hugo Sensors (Basel) Article Different tools are being implemented in order to improve the water management in agricultural irrigated areas of semiarid environments. Thermography has been progressively introduced as a promising technique for irrigation scheduling and the assessing of crop-water status, especially when deficit irrigation is being implemented. However, an important limitation is related to the cost of the actual cameras, this being a severe limitation to its practical usage by farmers and technicians. This work evaluates the potential and the robustness of a thermal imaging camera that is connected to smartphone (Flir One) recently developed by Flir Systems Inc. as a first step to assess the crop water status. The trial was developed in mature almond (Prunus dulcis Mill.) trees that are subjected to different irrigation treatments. Thermal information obtained by the Flir One camera was deal with the thermal information obtained with a conventional Thermal Camera (Flir SC660) with a high resolution, and subsequently, confronted with other related plant physiological parameters (leaf water potential, Ψ(leaf), and stomatal conductance, g(s)). Thermal imaging camera connected to smartphone provided useful information in estimating the crop-water status in almond trees, being a potential promising tool to accelerate the monitoring process and thereby enhance water-stress management of almond orchards. MDPI 2018-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5948678/ /pubmed/29614740 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18041050 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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García-Tejero, Iván Francisco
Ortega-Arévalo, Carlos José
Iglesias-Contreras, Manuel
Moreno, José Manuel
Souza, Luciene
Tavira, Simón Cuadros
Durán-Zuazo, Víctor Hugo
Assessing the Crop-Water Status in Almond (Prunus dulcis Mill.) Trees via Thermal Imaging Camera Connected to Smartphone
title Assessing the Crop-Water Status in Almond (Prunus dulcis Mill.) Trees via Thermal Imaging Camera Connected to Smartphone
title_full Assessing the Crop-Water Status in Almond (Prunus dulcis Mill.) Trees via Thermal Imaging Camera Connected to Smartphone
title_fullStr Assessing the Crop-Water Status in Almond (Prunus dulcis Mill.) Trees via Thermal Imaging Camera Connected to Smartphone
title_full_unstemmed Assessing the Crop-Water Status in Almond (Prunus dulcis Mill.) Trees via Thermal Imaging Camera Connected to Smartphone
title_short Assessing the Crop-Water Status in Almond (Prunus dulcis Mill.) Trees via Thermal Imaging Camera Connected to Smartphone
title_sort assessing the crop-water status in almond (prunus dulcis mill.) trees via thermal imaging camera connected to smartphone
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5948678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29614740
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18041050
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