Digital Phenotyping of Field Crops Under Field Conditions

Field phenotyping is the classical strategy to assess qualitatively and quantitatively agronomical important traits for field-grown plants. Many assessment methods are based on direct visual assessment (by the human eye) or the manual use of portable measurement units. Considering the increasing amount of non-destructive, image-based measurement systems that have become available in the last few years, there is a strong tendency to use these non-destructive methods in the field as well as in more controlled environments like greenhouses and growth rooms.

Designed for non-destructive digital phenotyping in rain-out shelters, lysimeter systems and small plot phenotyping, the Scanalyzer field offers superb precision, accuracy, resolution and predictive capabilities for research in Development of fine-tuned crop models, Highly dynamic plant stress testing such as drought stress, high resolution phenotyping as reference for remote sensing, Growth assessment, Crop physiology, Climate change, Water use efficiency, QTL analysis etc.

With the integrated environmental sensors the Scanalyzer field is able to measure all environmental parameters such as temperature, light (intensity , spectra), humidity an air flow to correlate the plant phenotyping data with the growth conditions.