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A University of Wisconsin scientist says remote sensor technology could be the future of crop management.

Professor Phil Townsend told potato and vegetable growers in Wisconsin that remote sensing of light reflecting from plants shows plant activity so accurately, it could be used to predict yield in the current season.  “Solar induced fluorescence did a better job of predicting productivity in plants, especially agricultural plants than just greenness did.”

Townsend tells Brownfield different compounds reflect light differently, so sensors can also detect disease before humans can see it. 

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