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Tiny Crop-Health Sensors could help Cut the Cost of Groceries

Tiny crop-health sensors could help cut the cost of groceries
The sensor system can rapidly switch between edge detection – imaging the outline of an object, such as a fruit – and extracting detailed infrared information, without the need for creating large volumes of data and using bulky external processors. Credit: Lincoln Clark, ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS)

A compact, lightweight sensor system with infrared imaging capabilities developed by an international team of engineers could be easily fitted to a drone for remote crop monitoring.

This flat-optics technology has the potential to replace traditional optical lens applications for environmental sensing in a range of industries.

This innovation could result in cheaper groceries as farmers would be able to pinpoint which crops require irriga...

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