Electrical Impedance of Fruit Tree Shoots from Late Winter to Spring

Muramatsu, Noboru; Hiraoka, Kiyoshi

doi:10.2525/ecb.44.77

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“…Since measurements are made once by poking the probe into the wood, the contact resistance changes with each measurement, which also deteriorates the measurement reproducibility. Muramatsu N. measured the impedance of small branches before and after dehydration [6]. The tree branch was cut into 3 cm lengths, stainless steel electrodes were placed in surface contact with the cut cross-sections at both ends, and the impedance was measured with an LCR meter.…”

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“…Because the electrodes were placed around the outside of the tree bark, the contact impedance of the electrodes would have been very large, and because the two-contact measurement method was used, measurement errors are presumed to have occurred. Muramatsu N. measured the impedance of small branches before and after dehydration [6]. The tree branch was cut into 3 cm lengths, stainless steel electrodes were placed in surface contact with the cut cross-sections at both ends, and the impedance was measured with an LCR meter.…”

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Effect of Ambient Temperature on Impedance-Based Physiological Activity Evaluation of Zelkova Tree

Lim,

Kim,

Kim

2024

Applied Sciences

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A system has been developed to remotely, continuously, and quantitatively measure the physiological activity of trees. The developed tree physiological activity monitoring (TPAM) system is equipped with electrical impedance, temperature, and light intensity measurement functions. In the two-contact impedance measurement method used in the previous plant impedance measurement, errors due to the polarization impedance of the electrodes could not be avoided. The developed TPAM system adopted a four-contact measurement method that could avoid polarization impedance errors, and, with it, the long-term monitoring of zelkova trees was performed. The monitoring of seasonal changes was conducted from July to November, and an impedance change pattern that repeated on a daily basis was observed in the short term, and an overall increase in the impedance was observed in the long term. Impedance changes related to daily temperature changes were observed even after all the tree leaves had fallen, meaning that this effect should be excluded when using impedance to evaluate tree vitality. For this reason, the influence of temperature fluctuations was excluded by using only the impedance values at the same daily temperature of 25 degrees from July to November. The analysis results at 25 degrees showed that the tree impedance value increased linearly by 8.7 Ω per day. The results of this series of long-term monitoring and analysis revealed that the ambient temperature must be taken into account in the evaluation of tree physiological activity based on electrical impedance.

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