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Test Thermal Properties

  • Measure thermal resistivity in soil, rock, concrete, and engineered materials
  • Measure thermal conductivity of nanofluids and other liquids     

Manage Irrigation

  • Use water content sensors in soilless media for precision irrigation scheduling
  • Quantify the severity of drought stress in nursery plants to forest canopies

Measure the Full Range of Water Potential

  • Measure soils at Permanent Wilting Point with excellent accuracy
  • Automate moisture characteristics
  • Use a frustration-free tensiometer

Monitor Light and Respiration in Canopies

  • Measure plant water stress with the leaf porometer
  • Use Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) data to estimate biomass production
  • Get Leaf Area Index (LAI) without destroying the canopy

Characterize the Watershed

  • Measure infiltration, soil storage, and deep drainage
  • Evaluate chemical fate and transport
  • Range of instruments from backpack ready to permanent installations

Monitor Soil Moisture

  • Ivory tower accuracy, pickup truck practicality
  • NEW: Your data, delivered. Check on your remote sites from virtually anywhere

Quantify Water Stress

  • Create extensive temporal data sets using non-destructive instruments
  • Research stomatal function
  • Compare irrigation treatments at the plant level

Water Potential 101

Want to learn how you can use water potential to help you understand plant available water?
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Canopy Measurements Part 3: Putting Stomatal Conductance Data into Context

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Canopy Measurements Part 2: Model Carbon Assimilation by Plants

June, 5 2012

Canopy Measurements Part 1: Leaf Area Index Basics

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Free Virtual Seminar: Making DataTrac3's Graphs More Meaningful

April, 16 2012

Free Virtual Seminar: Overview of the Modified SC-1 Leaf Porometer

March, 27 2012

Free Virtual Seminar: Lysimetry Basics: Peering in to the Black Box

February, 28 2012

International Thermal Resistivity Seminar and Workshop

January, 25 2012

Free Virtual Seminars: Soil Moisture Educational Series

January, 25 2012

Free Virtual Seminar: Water Potential - Which Method Should I Use?

November, 30 2011

Free Virtual Seminar - Soil Moisture 201: Water Content Measurement Methods and Applications

November, 17 2011
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