Publication detail

The soil moisture and the possibilities of automatic irrigation of plants

KRBAL, M. BAXANT, P. ŠKODA, J. SUMEC, S.

Original Title

The soil moisture and the possibilities of automatic irrigation of plants

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

The plants need light, heat, carbon dioxide, nutrients and also air humidity and soil moisture for their life. The regular watering of plats is important from these three reasons. The metabolism in the body of plant is mediated by water. Water is used to maintain the desired temperature of plant. And the air humidity is created by soil moisture. How can we measure the soil moisture and how effec-tively watering plants is described in this article.

Keywords

Plant, Irrigation, Soil Moisture

Authors

KRBAL, M.; BAXANT, P.; ŠKODA, J.; SUMEC, S.

RIV year

2013

Released

20. 5. 2013

Publisher

VSB – Technical University of Ostrava

Location

Ostrava

ISBN

978-80-248-2988-3

Book

Proceedings of the 14th International Scientific Conference Electric Power Engineering 2013

Edition

1

Edition number

1

Pages from

729

Pages to

732

Pages count

4

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT100037,
  author="Michal {Krbal} and Petr {Baxant} and Jan {Škoda} and Stanislav {Sumec}",
  title="The soil moisture and the possibilities of automatic irrigation of plants",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 14th International Scientific Conference Electric Power Engineering 2013",
  year="2013",
  series="1",
  number="1",
  pages="729--732",
  publisher="VSB – Technical University of Ostrava",
  address="Ostrava",
  isbn="978-80-248-2988-3"
}