Development of technologies and methods for monitoring the spatial variability of air temperature in greenhouse environment

Diego Scacalossi Voltan, Rogério Zanarde Barbosa, João Eduardo Machado Perea Martins, Célia Regina Lopes Zimback

Abstract


Climatic factors directly influence growth and productivity of plants inside greenhouses, where temperature can be considered one of the major parameter in this context. Thus, the aim of this research was to develop a low cost device for thermal sensing and data acquisition, and use it in data collection and analysis of spatial variability of temperature inside a greenhouse with tropical climate. The developed equipment for thermal measurements showed a high degree of accuracy and fast responses in measurements, proving its efficiency. The data analysis interpretations were made from the elaborations of variograms and of tridimensional maps generated by a geostatistical software. The processed data analysis presented that a greenhouse without thermal control has spatial variations of air temperature, both in the sampled horizontals layers as in the three analyzed vertical columns, presenting variations of up to 3.6 ºC in certain times.

Keywords


Spatial dependence; geostatistics; thermometric tool

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5935//PAeT.V6.N3.01