Thermal Imagery

A new specialized data product offered by VineView, thermal imagery has huge potential, not just for irrigation management applications, but also for detecting crop health. Plants regulate their temperature through a process called evapotranspiration. Plants under stress (caused disease or insufficient water) are unable to maintain this process, and appear hotter in a thermal image. VineView can also combine thermal data with canopy density information derived from multispectral data to further improve anomaly detection.



Thermal image, showing relative differences in temperature over an area. Resolution is about 2 meters per pixel.