The invention discloses a
wood moisture content detection method based on
radar waves. The
wood moisture content detection method overcomes such shortcoming of the conventional weighing method as complicated detection process and is a real-time, continuous and lossless
moisture content detection method. When the
radar waves are transmitted in wood, the transmission speed, the amplitude intensity, the reflection time and the like of the
radar waves are affected due to difference of
dielectric constants in the wood, and the
dielectric constants in the wood are closely relevant to the
moisture content of the wood. The detection method comprises the steps of mounting a radar antenna (containing a radar wave emitting and receiving device, wherein the radar
wave frequency is 900Mhz, and the wood which is 1m thick can be detected), a data manager (which can digitalize and store the radar waves emitted and reflected by the radar antenna for analysis and research), and a wood relative
dielectric constant and
moisture content relation model; emitting the radar waves to the wood with the known thickness through the radar antenna, collecting the
reflected waves, calculating the double-journey traveling time of the radar waves in the wood through the data manager, calculating a relative dielectric constant of the wood, and obtaining the moisture content of the wood according to the wood relative dielectric constant and moisture content relation model.