Title :
Monitoring the water status of plants using THz radiation
Author :
Born, Norman ; Gente, Ralf ; Behringer, David ; Schwerdtfeger, Michael ; Busch, Stefan ; Liepelt, Sascha ; Ziegenhagen, Birgit ; Koch, Martin
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Phys. & Mater. Sci. Center, Philipps-Univ. Marburg, Marburg, Germany
Abstract :
The high absorption coefficient of liquid water in the THz regime makes THz systems an excellent tool for performing in-vivo measurements of biological tissue in the context of drought stress experiments. For realistic applications there are different approaches to obtain such measurements, which are discussed herein.
Keywords :
biological tissues; environmental monitoring (geophysics); hydrological techniques; hydrology; rain; vegetation; THz radiation; absorption coefficient; biological tissue; drought stress experiment; in-vivo measurement; liquid water; plant water status monitoring; Biological system modeling; Biomedical monitoring; Electrical resistance measurement; Monitoring; Plants (biology); Stress;
Conference_Titel :
Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2014 39th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tucson, AZ
DOI :
10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2014.6956083
