Sensor

Abstract

The present invention relates generally to devices, methods and systems for acquiring plant data. Disclosed is a field-deployable sensor attachable to plants for acquisition of plant-related data comprising: a probe including; a probe body with at least one aperture therethrough which locates the placement and spacing of one or more thermally conductive pins within the tissue of a plant; the one or more thermally conductive pins having distal and proximal ends, said distal end traversing through said aperture in the probe body and insertable into the tissue of the plant, and said proximal end located within the deployable sensor; such that when inserted into the tissue the pin approaches thermal equilibrium with the temperature of the region of the tissue in which the pin is located; and, a temperature sensor (T-sensor) enclosed within the deployable sensor located adjacent the proximal end of the pin to acquire the temperature of the proximal end of the pin; such that the T-sensor through the thermal equilibration of the pin with the plant tissue acquires plant tissue temperature data.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.