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Pei Wang1,2, Wei Yu3, Mingxiong Ou4,5

  • 1Key Laboratory of Modern Agricultural Equipment and Technology, Ministry of Education of PRC, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212300, China. wangpei@live.cn.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
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