Measurement and Analysis of Soil Temperature Field Based on Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor Array

Abstract

Studying the soil temperature field and its variation law is of great significance to the real-time service of agricultural production. To solve the problems of low detection efficiency and difficulty of distributed detection, a distributed detection method of soil temperature field using wavelength division multiplexing and space division multiplexing technologies based on fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor is proposed. In this scheme, the stainless steel tube encapsulating the FBG string was vertically buried in the measured soil, and the tunable laser method and the peak-seeking algorithm were used to demodulate the wavelength of each sensor of the FBG string. The soil temperature field measurement experiments were carried out in the farmland environment. The experimental results show that the proposed method can detect the soil temperature field in real time. The internal temperature of soil changes periodically with the periodic change of surface environment temperature. With the increase of depth, the influence of surface temperature on soil temperature gradually decreases, and the amplitude of soil temperature oscillation gradually decreases, but the hysteresis effect of temperature peak becomes more and more obvious. The ambient wind speed can reduce the temperature of soil surface and shallow layer. Soil moisture affects the speed of temperature transfer from the surface layer to the deep layers, and the hysteresis effect of temperature peak is more significant in the soil with higher moisture. Solar radiation has a great influence on the temperature of soil surface and shallow layer.

Keywords

• Fiber Bragg grating
• sensor array
• soil temperature field
• wavelength division multiplexing
• space division multiplexing