Floral infrared emissivity estimates using simple tools.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Floral temperature has important consequences for plant biology, and accurate temperature measurements are therefore important to plant research. Thermography, also referred to as thermal imaging, is beginning to be used more frequently to measure and visualize floral temperature. Accurate thermographic measurements require information about the object's emissivity (its capacity to emit thermal radiation with temperature), to obtain accurate temperature readings. However, there are currently no published estimates of floral emissivity available. This is most likely to be due to flowers being unsuitable for the most common protocols for emissivity estimation. Instead, researchers have used emissivity estimates collected on vegetative plant tissue when conducting floral th

SUBMITTER: Harrap MJM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7905901 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature