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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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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/). |
spellingShingle | Article 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 |
topic | Article |
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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