DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF INTERNAL MOISTURE DEFICITS IN TREES

A New Advance in Direct Measurement of Moisture in Skin

In this review the potential application of near-infrared spectroscopy for the in vitro and in vivo characterization of skin is presented. The near-infrared attenuated reflectance spectroscopy allows the determination of the overall skin water content as well as of the various components constituting the skin, i.e., stratum corneum, epidermis and dermis. This technique provides the possibility ...

Study of Changes in Soil Moisture and Salinity Under PlasticMulch and Drip Irrigation in Pistachio Trees

In this study, changes in soil moisture and salinity contents in drip irrigation combined with white and black plastic mulches compared to no mulch (control) was evaluated. The experiment was carried out in two commercial pistachio orchards (Ohadi cultivar) with irrigation frequencies of 8 to 12 days with a total water consumption 4100 and 6170 m3ha−1. The study was conducted in a complete rand...

Direct measurement vs. indirect inference for determining network-internal delays

We consider direct techniques for measuring network-internal delays that rely on network routers as measurement nodes, and indirect techniques that rely on end-to-end measurements and infer delay distributions on the common internal paths. The direct technique does not require any additional infrastructure support, and can thus be directly applied to the analysis of network performance and the ...

Moisture Measurement Using LIBS

LIBS is traditionally an atomic emission spectroscopy involving sampling, atomization and excitation of a sample by laser ablation. The radiative cooling of the created plasma is spectrally analyzed to provide the elemental composition of a sample of interest. In 1962, two years after the invention of the laser, Jarrell Ash Co. developed the Laser Microprobe that revolutionized the elemental mi...

Measurement of Available Soil Moisture