Abstract
Radio-frequency measurements were taken on four cultivars of hard red winter wheat at 24C, moisturecontents ranging from 9% to 21%, wet basis, and at bulk densities ranging from 0.66 to 0.83 g/cm3. Moisture content waspredicted with an equation developed from the transmission coefficient S21 at three frequencies between 1 and 350 MHz.Measurements at about 40, 240, and 320 MHz were selected from multiple linear regression analysis of data collected onstatic samples in a two-port coaxial flow-through sample holder. Calibration was performed with 49 samples from thefour wheat cultivars harvested, and validation was performed with 84 different samples of the same cultivars. Thestandard deviation of the differences (SEP) for the validation data, compared to standard air-oven moisture contents, was0.36% moisture content, and the bias was 0.06% moisture content.<br><br>Initial attempts to develop a moisture calibration from the intrinsic dielectric properties were unsuccessful. This wasattributed to larger errors in the model used to calculate the loss factor values at the lower frequencies.
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