Effects of artificial LED-based lighting of turf grass due to photosynthesis, growth, vitality and soil moisture
Abstract
Design and construction of sports stadiums minimize more and more the natural illumination of turfgrass by sun light. In combination with dense match schedules and high frequencies of usage artificial lighting gains in importance for vital turf grass. Lighting by LED technologies fixed on moveable heavy trolleys are already used in sports stadiums. However, luminance is reduced dramatically by distance, investments in complex lighting tools (moveable trolleys) make maintenance cost intensive. Therefore, a new and efficient lighting system with low distances to plants have to be developed. In a first step this research project will deal with two issues necessary for artificial lighting of turf grass: A | efficiency of optimized LED lights; B | illumination strategies for vital turf grass. To regulate the influencing climatic parameters turf grass plots will be build according to actual standards in a greenhouse. These plots will be illuminated with different new types of LED-lights and in selected lighting scenarios. A plant monitoring will allow to draw conclusions about efficiency of new LED-lights and plant specific illumination rates.
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Ulrike Pitha
Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Ulrike Pitha
ulrike.pitha@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-87403
Project Leader
15.08.2019 - 31.12.2020
Thomas Wultsch
Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Wultsch
thomas.wultsch@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-87427
Project Staff
01.09.2019 - 29.02.2020