Development of an Intelligent Wind Erosion Monitoring System

Abstract

Wind erosion monitoring is an important method for measuring soil erosion and desertification. However, the current wind erosion monitoring equipment has the disadvantages of low automation and low measurement accuracy. In this work, an intelligent wind erosion monitoring system is developed, which can automatically collect and upload information on sand and the environment. The structure of the mechanical parts is designed and optimized to reduce the measurement error caused by the windblown sand impact on the sample collection to improve the stability of the system. A specific scheme for the precision calibration of the load cell is developed and implemented. The jitter parameters of the load cell were determined using the JY61 six-axis acceleration sensor, and then the optimal scheme to eliminate the jitter error was determined by comparing two neural network models in MATLAB 2021a software, and the precision calibration of the load cell was completed. As a result, the system has a reliable mechanical structure and hardware system and a perfect error compensation processing scheme. In a certain period, the system can be fully automatic with stable operation. The field operation test of this system can meet the design requirements and improve the measurement accuracy of windblown sand wells.

Keywords

• soil erosion
• wind erosion monitoring system
• high-precision calibration of load cell
• six-axis acceleration sensor