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Oleg Furmanets, Ph.D: A magic wand will transfer data about leaf area

Posted by Mary Kuzmenko Published on January 30, 2016

Oleg Furmanets, Ph.D in Agriculture (2015), a lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Soil Science and Agriculture National University of Water Management and Natural Resources Use, shared his ideas about precision agriculture and told about his experience of work in this area.

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Why do we need to measure leaf surface area?

Posted by Mary Kuzmenko Published on January 28, 2016

A scientist who studies plants repeatedly faced with a need to measure the leaf surface area. The most difficult task is to define complex leaves because the generally accepted scientific methods (contour method, weighting method, cutting method) have the greatest error.