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Authors:
André Torre-Neto
Raquel Ghini
Keywords: Wireless Sensors; Environment Monitoring; Plant Diseases; Climate Change; FACE Facility
Abstract:
Climate change is considered one of humankind’s greatest challenges in the near future. The climate change is expected to interfere in the scenario of worldwide agriculture. Its economic, social and environmental impacts can be positive, negative or neutral, since these changes can decrease, increase or have no impact on plant diseases, pests or weeds depending on each region or period of time considered. A type of experiment called FACE, Free Air Carbon-dioxide Enrichment, has been conducted in the USA, UK, Germany, Japan, Australia, Italy, Denmark, among other countries, to study particularly the impacts of the CO2 concentration increasing on crops. In Brazil, the first FACE experiment in South America has been installed by a group of scientists of Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation). Compared to the existing FACE projects, the Brazilian implementation has been innovated with a wireless sensor network approach. In the present article, we describe the design and some operational aspects of that implementation.
Pages: 143 to 147
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012
Publication date: August 19, 2012
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4405
ISBN: 978-1-61208-207-3
Location: Rome, Italy
Dates: from August 19, 2012 to August 24, 2012