Water Management

Achieve Optimal Plant Growth: How to Measure Rockwool Moisture Content with a Sensor and Smartphone

Rockwool is a popular growing medium for hydroponics and greenhouse gardens. While it offers excellent aeration and drainage, maintaining...

A few Tips on Substrate Moisture/EC Monitoring and Automated Decision Making in Controlled Environment Agriculture

Large amount of data that grower does not know what to do with leads to frustration and mistrust in the technology. more data does not ...

How to Use Computer Vision for Automatic Estimation of Crop Water Needs?

The system automatically estimates daily crop ET using a top-view image of the crop to estimate crop cover (C, %), a polynomial eq...

Program (C++ Class) to Calculate Theoretical Values for Actual and Potential Transpiration

For a long time, I wanted to share the source code (embedded software in C/C++) for my computer vision system (BINA Pro) system on GitHub.

Automated Estimation of Crop Coefficient and Crop Evapotranspiration Using an Imaging System

A good alternative is ET-based irrigation scheduling or irrigation based on the potential crop water use (ETc), which is usually ...