Vineyard going green or turning yellow?
about contact Vineyard managers can’t change the amount of sun or rain that their vines receive but they can ensure that vines extract the maximum amount of energy from the available sun’s rays. Latest results from the South Wales Llanerch Vineyard trial demonstrate how to accurately measure the leaf pigments and rapidly determine when to […]
Drones in the vineyard
about contact Drones at JoJo’s vineyard, Russell’s Water Oxfordshire UAVs have long been discussed as a way to survey vineyards for vine health and apply directed nutrition or phytosanitary interventions. Great in theory but impractical? A few days ago Corbeau saw a demonstration of the new DJI AGRAS T50 at JoJo’s vineyard just outside Henley-upon-Thames […]
Hear more from microLED displays!
about contact Last week someone asked Corbeau, ‘So what’s happening in the world of microLED displays?’ After the US launch of Apple’s new Vision Pro 2 mixed reality headset back in February this year, it’s a good question to ask. The answer is that the Metaverse is a bit flat. Tim Cook’s company’s first major […]
Smartphone spectral leaf imaging
about contact Strawberry leaf images and Red Green Blue indices derived using OpenCV image analysis All season we have been monitoring the health of our Strawberry Greenhouse crop. In addition to visual inspection with a loupe, digital leaf imaging has been a useful way to follow the development of the plants. Now that autumn has […]
New colour MicroLED display technology
about contact MicroLED chip with 3 micron pitch pixels (Image courtesy of MICLEDI Microdisplays BV) Small is beautiful. Small and brightly coloured is very beautiful indeed! Belgium companies QustomDot BV and chip designers MICLEDI Microdisplays BV have teamed up to produce a major advance in mass producing display devices for augmented and virtual reality (AR […]
Mineral deficiency in bean leaves classified by multispectral imaging
about contact French bean plant Plants tell us when they are lacking vital nutrients but we can’t always hear what they are saying. Nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium (N, P, K) are well know macronutrients and the appearance of plants lacking any one of them is also well known. Plants lacking nitrogen have small leaves and […]
Coffee leaf miner infection located by multispectral imaging
about contact news There’s an awful lot of coffee in Brazil! according to the old song recorded by Frank Sinatra. In 2021 almost 70 million 60kg bags of coffee were produced in Brazil, roughly one third of global production, making Brazil the largest coffee producer in the world. Yield varies from year to year depending […]
Raman spectroscopy sorts male hemp plants from females
about contact news Cannabis sativa (courtesy Wikipedia) It turns out that growers of medicinal cannabis and those catering for a more recreational market love females but hate males. Gender bias is certainly in the news today but horticulturalists have long known that female hemp plants have higher levels of pharmacologically active compounds than male plants. […]
Smart glasses get smarter
What happens when you put two superior optical technologies together? In the case of smart glasses you get bigger, brighter and less blurry. Kingsman-style smart glasses have been available for more than a year now but they typically have flat glass lenses which are difficult to adjust for the 50% of the adult population […]
Red microLED breakthrough for AR displays
Autumn is a time of year that the folk at Porotech in Cambridge, UK seem to love. Those deep red autumn colours mark a year of significant growth. This time last year Porotech announced they could fabricate wafer-scale red emitting nano-porous InGaN, suitable for microLEDs. This autumn Porotech are announcing a ‘world first’ red microLED […]