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We present a numerical method to determine the volumetric water content of leaves from transmission terahertz time-domain spectroscopy data. The method is based on iterative optimization of parameters of an effective medium model for vegetative tissue. We found a very good agreement between measurements performed with this method and direct fresh/dry leaf weight-based water measurements.
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This work was partly funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF, competence network “CROP.SENSe.net”, subprojects S4 and GS2. We would also like to thank CONACyT (Mexico) [Grant no. 131931] for financial support.
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Gente, R., Born, N., Voß, N. et al. Determination of Leaf Water Content from Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopic Data. J Infrared Milli Terahz Waves 34, 316–323 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10762-013-9972-8
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