This paper reviews the various methods available for irrigation scheduling, contrasting traditional water-balance and soil moisture-based approaches with those based on sensing of the plant response to water deficits. The main plant-based methods for irrigation scheduling, including those based on direct or indirect measurement of plant water status and those based on plant physiological respon...

Echo shifted (ES) gradient-recalled echo sequences (whose TE > TR) have found important applications in fMRI and MR thermometry since their introduction. The technique increases T *(2) weighting in BOLD imaging and temperature change sensitivity in phase-based temperature imaging compared to FLASH sequences. Yet, inconsistent observations have previously been reported when variants of this tech...

In manufacturing environments, measuring the temperature of an object without contact has proven to be a complex and daunting task. Objects in motion are often difficult to touch, and objects that are too hot will damage the temperature sensor. Dependable means for gauging high temperatures have evolved over the centuries, from the primitive visual methods used by blacksmiths as they forged ste...

We present the progress made in developing a molecular tagging thermometry (MTT) technique for achieving spatially and temporally resolved temperature measurements within a small water droplet over a solid surface. For MTT measurement, a pulsed laser is used to tag phosphorescent 1-BrNp.Mbeta-CD.ROH molecules premixed with water. Long-lived laser-induced phosphorescence is imaged at two success...

We study the Bayesian approach to thermometry with no prior knowledge about expected temperature scale, through example of energy measurements on fully or partially thermalized qubit probes. show that most common estimators, namely mean and median, lead high-temperature divergences when used for uninformed thermometry. To circumvent this achieve better overall accuracy, we propose two new estim...