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Sensors (Basel). 2016 Jun 22;16(6). doi: 10.3390/s16060886.

Evaluating Soil Moisture Status Using an e-Nose.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)

Andrzej Bieganowski, Katarzyna Jaromin-Glen, Łukasz Guz, Grzegorz Łagód, Grzegorz Jozefaciuk, Wojciech Franus, Zbigniew Suchorab, Henryk Sobczuk

Affiliations

  1. Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Doswiadczalna 4 Str., Lublin 20-290, Poland. [email protected].
  2. Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Doswiadczalna 4 Str., Lublin 20-290, Poland. [email protected].
  3. Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Lublin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka 40B Str., Lublin 20-618, Poland. [email protected].
  4. Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Lublin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka 40B Str., Lublin 20-618, Poland. [email protected].
  5. Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Doswiadczalna 4 Str., Lublin 20-290, Poland. [email protected].
  6. Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Lublin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka 40 Str., Lublin 20-618, Poland. [email protected].
  7. Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Lublin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka 40B Str., Lublin 20-618, Poland. [email protected].
  8. Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Lublin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka 40B Str., Lublin 20-618, Poland. [email protected].

PMID: 27338404 PMCID: PMC4934312 DOI: 10.3390/s16060886

Abstract

The possibility of distinguishing different soil moisture levels by electronic nose (e-nose) was studied. Ten arable soils of various types were investigated. The measurements were performed for air-dry (AD) soils stored for one year, then moistened to field water capacity and finally dried within a period of 180 days. The volatile fingerprints changed during the course of drying. At the end of the drying cycle, the fingerprints were similar to those of the initial AD soils. Principal component analysis (PCA) and artificial neural network (ANN) analysis showed that e-nose results can be used to distinguish soil moisture. It was also shown that different soils can give different e-nose signals at the same moistures.

Keywords: e-nose; humidity; metrology; smell; soil; water

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