Method for monitoring the cotton plant vigor based on the WSN technology

It is difficult to monitor the vigor of a large number of crops. For this problem, selecting the cotton plant as the research object, we proposed a new method for monitoring the plant vigor. The function leaf angle and the chlorophyll concentration are calculated through image processing technology. The gathered data are transmitted to the host computer via USB. The host computer implements the fusion data of function leaf angle and chlorophyll concentration to achieve this goal that the plant vigor is monitored. From these results, this new method is available for monitoring the vigor of a large number of cotton plants, and the fusion data based on fuzzy comprehensive evaluation improves the accuracy of judging the vigor. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.