An automated plant / crop measuring system for field based recording of crop development and performance.

The following characteristics are extracts from the full technical specification;

1) Field based, automated, system covering a minimum area of 1000m2 and not less than 10M width

2) Clearance of measuring gantry to allow for a crop height of 2M

3)To be compatible with existing farm machinery, minimum clearance height of 5M

4)Instrumentation of an XYZ positional measuring platform comprising;

1 off RGB camera

1 off Hyper-spectral camera

1 off Thermal Imaging station with FLIR camera

1 off Fluorescence image capture device

The equipment must also have the following capabilities;

Multi-wavelength spectral reflectance capability

Laser height measurement

Environmental monitoring including ambient CO2

Integrated data analysis software package

Installation and training package.