News of Temperature and – or moisture sensors in agriculture

Measuring soil, plant or water temperatures in the care and growth of agricultural products

FTS Launches Unique SDI-12 Temp Sensor

January 15, 2012 Agriculture

DigiTemp

Digital submersible sensor for use in water or soil Victoria, BC CANADA – FTS has launched DigiTemp, a new digital submersible temperature sensor. DigiTempis a simple but effective digital temperature sensor for use in water or soil, and its use of SDI-12 interface makes it unique in the marketplace. The sensor has been tested and [...]

SMOS detects freezing soil as winter takes grip

December 20, 2011 Agriculture

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ESA’s SMOS satellite is designed to observe soil moisture and ocean salinity, but this innovative mission is showing that it can also offer new insight into Earth’s carbon and methane cycles by mapping soil as it freezes and thaws. The launch of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission in November 2009 opened up [...]

Advanced IR Environmental Control System

September 16, 2011 Agriculture

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To Help Offset Growing World Food Shortages. Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont IL, USA – A fully integrated, infrared Detect and Manage environmental control system to multiply greenhouse productivity was unveiled at this Summer’s Sensors Expo and Conference by Dexter Research. Supporting the trend toward greenhouse automation, the Dexter Research IR Detect and Manage [...]

NIR Helps Grade Grasses for Ethanol Yields

August 29, 2011 Agriculture

ARS geneticist Ken Vogel examines switch grass in a field

A Quick Way… By Don Comis August 18, 2011 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers have developed an inexpensive way to grade the ethanol potential of perennial grasses at the biorefinery’s loading dock. That future has been made possible by a team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists, including Ken Vogel, Rob Mitchell, and Steve [...]

Libelium enables extreme Precision Agriculture in vineyards and greenhouses

June 16, 2010 Agriculture

New Wireless Sensor Board Zaragoza, Spain – Libelium announces a new Agriculture Sensor board for its Waspmote platform. The new board enables up to fourteen environmental parameters to be monitored in a wireless sensor network. This sophisticated monitoring brings extreme precision to crop growing in vineyards and greenhouses by enabling irrigation and climate control to [...]

NASA & NOAA Make a Fast-Forward Movie of Hurricanes in ’09

June 10, 2010 Agriculture

Available online as both agencies prepare for the 2010 Atlantic Ocean hurricane season Preview version NASA Goddard, USA – NASA technology and satellite data coupled with data from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) operated satellites, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) were combined to create a six minute animation of all of 2009′s Atlantic [...]

IR Leaf Temp Sensor

June 9, 2010 Agriculture

Precise canopy temperature measurements are required for CWSI* Logan UT, USA — Apogee Instruments offers The Infrared Radiometer that measures remote surface temperatures to within 0.2 °C. Measurement of surface temperature is a crucial component of plant energy transfer. Accurate measurement of the leaf-to-air temperature gradient is essential to the determination of transpiration rate and [...]

Soil Moisture & Temp Sensor

May 12, 2010 Agriculture

SM300

New! SM300 Sensor measures soil moisture AND temperature Cambridge, UK – The new SM300 from Delta-T Devices Ltd offers outstanding performance in both normal and saline soil conditions, and is stable across wide ranges of temperature and salinity. Its construction uses industrial grade connectors and high specification materials throughout to produce a soil moisture sensor [...]

Wireless Soil Monitor at World Ag Expo

February 25, 2010 Agriculture

AquaMon Wireless Soil Monitoring System Promises High Crop Yields with Less Water MILPITAS CA, USA — /PRNewswire/ — Cermetek Microelectronics presented a preview of its AquaMon wireless soil monitoring system at the World Ag Expo in Tulare, California, February 9th to 11th. The preview provided a live demonstration of AquaMon capabilities including transmission of real-time [...]

New Wireless Rain & Rain/Freeze Sensors

January 15, 2010 Agriculture

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Affordable, revolutionary sensors install quickly and easily to save time, money & water Azusa CA, USA — (PR.com) — Using smart, weather-based irrigation technology is a very efficient way to maintain a healthy, beautiful landscape. As smart technology continues to emerge as a must-have for irrigation systems, more customers are asking contractors for options that [...]

NEW: ITAG Temp Label Data Logger

October 28, 2009 Agriculture

ITAG Temperature Label Data Logger

A label that records temperature data! Bournemouth, UK — The ITAG is a unique temperature monitoring hybrid, bringing together the traceability offered by a data logger, namely time versus temperature data, the visibility and financial practicalities of a chemical time temperature indicator (TTI) with the same simplicity of operation. If you are operating in the [...]

FoodSafety.GOV

September 13, 2009 Agriculture

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Gary Player Unwraps AST’s UgMO(TM)

February 7, 2009 Agriculture

AST’s Patented Wireless Soil Sensors & Analytic Software Put Water Conservation, Environmental Information at Industry’s Fingertips

Porter Family Vineyards Inaugural Wine Featured in Wine Spectator

January 30, 2009 Agriculture

Crossbow eKo Customer Delivers Award-Winning Wine San Jose CA, USA – – The Porter Family Vineyards earned a place in 2008 in the September issue of Wine Spectator’s “Short List” for the Porter Family Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2005. This is a rare honor because it was the Porter Family’s inaugural vintage. …

EasyBloomTM Plant Sensor & Free Plant Library

October 27, 2008 Agriculture

EasyBloom Plant Sensor

New Internet-Connected Device Will Help Ensure Plants Thrive SAN FRANCISCO CA, USA – PlantSense, a pioneer in Internet-enabled gardening tools, has received $3.5 million in Series A funding from Gabriel Ventures and independent investors. Working in combination with its free Internet service, the PlantSense tool recommends which plants will thrive in a specific location and [...]

Everest Interscience at ASABE Annual Meeting

June 29, 2008 Agriculture

IR temperatures can have errors up to 2.4 °C in Ag measurements without SkySpy Tucson AZ, USA — Plant leaves reflect approximately 2-4% of incident infrared radiation; normally this is a minor amount unless the radiative object is extremely cold, such as with sky conditions. Everest’s Sky-Spy (U. S. Patent No. 4,420,265) corrects for errors [...]