Listening - Using sensors and data loggers for agriculture/Prompts
From OER in Education
Instrumentation for plant research - Roger Frost meets Tony Peloe from Delta-T
Delta-T supply plant and environment monitoring equipment, including data loggers, to plant growers and researchers.
- How does the equipment made here generally differ from what you could buy more cheaply in a garden centre?
- How does a ‘frequency domain’ moisture sensor work?
- How is the sensor used and what value does it give?
- Describe the use of the profiling probe which measures moisture at depth.
- For what purpose is the profiling probe used?
- What is their controller data logger able to do?
- What advantage does this offer?
- What does the solar pyranometer allow scientists to measure?
- Why is measuring diffuse radiation from the sun of current interest? - Mention any current interest in measuring radiation.
- Why might keepers of Roman ruins be interested in measuring moisture?
- The sun ‘moves across the sky’ each day. How does the pyranometer – the device that measures radiation – manage to record it from a single location?
- How can a temperature probe (thermistor) be used to measure a horses breathing?