Maintenance and adjustment of sensors
Last Friday we were doing some maintenance tasks in our facility in La Majada, property of Grupo Paloma, as part of the IRRIFRUT project.
IRRIFRUT
IRRIFRUT maintenance tasks
IRRIFRUT project (La Majada). Installation of rain protection and adjustment of infrared radiomenters. Pruning measurement to differentiate vegetative growth between treatments.
Preparing sensors
Encapsulating sensors for soil installation.
New article in Sensors journal
On November 22nd we published a new article in Sensors (http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/22/6678), where we explored the dielectric properties of soil at different electromagnetic frequencies. The bandwidth analysed ranges from 1MHz to 6 GHz and the materials studied are mainly clays and clay soils with different mineralogical compositions. This study proposes a new mixing model that tries …
Planning the deployment of sensors
Starting the installation for the trials of the new project in the farm “La Majada” of the group “Paloma.
Start of the IRRIFRUT project
Good news! We are starting a new and exciting journey with the IRRIFRUT project which is funded by the State Research Agency (AEI) with the code PID2019-106226RB-C2/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, and it is the natural continuation of the former ARIFRUT project. The IRRIFRUT project (Automation of precise irrigation of fruit trees based on soil and plant water sensors) will be developed over …
Research stay at Centre for Ecology & Hydrology of Bangor, Wales.
Two of our researchers last summer took a research stay at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in Bangor, North Wales, UK, where they studied the dielectric properties of soils with researchers David A. Robinson and Inma Lebron.
XXXVII Congreso Nacional de Riegos
From the 4th to 6th of June was held in Don Benito (Badajoz) the XXXVII Congreso Nacional de Riegos. Three presentations were made by Pedro Blaya Ros and Víctor Blanco Montoya.
SEIA’2018 Conference
From the 19th to 21st of September was held in Ámsterdam the Fourth International Conference on Sensors and Electronic Instrumentation Advances (SEIA’ 2018). Our PhD student, Juan Domingo González, presented the contribution “Design and simulation of a soil sensor using microstrip lines and neural networks” in the Environment Sensors session.