More than four years in the making, CropSpec is a collaborative effort between Topcon and Yara, the century-old, Europe-based fertilizer manufacturer that currently leads the world in fertilizer sales. Topcon’s Mike Gomes says that the collaboration has brought together his company’s expertise in optical sensors with Yara’s four decades of research on nitrogen uptake to [...]
Researcher’s ADC – FX / Optical Filter Bundle
Our new ADC – Filter Experimentation System (ADC – FX) is an invaluable tool for correlating specific wavelengths of visible and NIR radiation with plant canopy chemistry.
Like our standard ADC system, the ADC-FX contains a single image sensor. This system differs from the ADC [...]
Integrated Unmanned Aircraft/Camera Systems
For multispectral cameras, unmanned aerial vehicles provide ideal vantage points from which to view the ground below. Capturing quality multispectral images from the air, however, is not an easy task. To do so requires the aircraft and the camera to operate as a single integrated unit. This requires either a single company [...]
Typically, healthy plants are green. Withhold water and they brown. Long before the stress factors that endanger plants can be seen in the visible spectrum, they appear in the near-infrared. Tetracam’s imaging systems monitor the visible and near infrared radiation that plants reflect. This enables our customers to capture the data they need to react [...]
Tetracam produces the world’s most efficient and most economical multispectral cameras and the software required to interpret what they see. On farms and ranches throughout the world, Tetracam systems monitor subtle changes in the visible and near-infrared radiation that plants reflect. Growers use this data to spot plants under stress or differentiate species or monitor plant [...]
The revolution of technologies nowadays has produced many changes in our farming methods. These technologies are GIS and GPS together with controllers, sensors, and monitors for the agricultural gear and together they enable farmers to employ electronic aids for their modern farming. Modern farming helps the farmers to plant with the use of machines so [...]
The revolution of elections during the last decades has produced two technologies that may impact in our farming in the next decade. These technologies are GPS and GIS. Together with these technologies are extensive selection of sensors, controllers, and monitors for the agricultural gear. Together they enable the famers to employ the electronic steerage aids [...]
Instead of kicking back during winter, farmers are now keeping busy at the computer. They are now using global positioning systems according to earth movement to do what is called the precision agriculture. Precision farming is a very important term in the precision agriculture field. Essentially at the core of the precision farming are the [...]
Today, humanity is facing an acute rice crisis which can be a serious threat to keeping the social peace. This is not a surprise at all since considering the knowledge capital of men; it is really hard and impossible not to foresee such occurrence like this. In fact it was indicated on Africa Rice Center [...]
Back in October all Central American countries- from Guatemala to Panamá- went under a severe and continuos non stop raining condition for two weeks; affecting land preparation, crop establishment and growth for the second crop in the southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Rice leaf miner became a serious pest, damaging scores of fields because [...]
Agricultura Científica S.A. anuncia la disponibilidad del sensor de clorofila y biomasa CropSpec de Topcon para los cultivos de arroz, caña de azúcar y piña.
CropSpec es el sensor más avanzado del mundo, funciona a base de rayos laser (patente Topcon) y sus lecturas NO SON afectadas por la hora del día, la posición del sol, [...]
