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Crop Water Stress Index is a means of irrigation scheduling and crop water stress quantification based on canopy temperature measurements and prevailing meteorological conditions. Plant temperature is an indicator of plant water status because stom…

Apogee recently held an open house to celebrate our 20th anniversary and the completion of our expansion project that tripled the size of our headquarters. Joining us on May 10th, 2016 were many great university colleagues, customers, partners, ne…

Apogee’s SP-230 heated pyranometer was recently selected to be part of Project Loon from Google. Project Loon is a network of high-altitude balloons developed by the Google X team that will provide streaming internet coverage from the stratos…

At the beginning of each growing season, as leaves and buds begin to emerge, crops will be susceptible to frost damage. On clear, calm nights, leaf and bud temperature can drop below freezing even if air temperature remains slightly above 0 °C…

{Photo from: http://bit.ly/Q5LIMb} Light is a concept that starts off being really simple to understand as a child, and then slowly grows to be something that is much more than meets the eye (literally).Being a new hire at Apogee, there are a lo…