Automated monitoring of greenhouse crops

Interest is increasing in the development of methods to automatically and c ontinuously detect crop stress, water use, growth and nutrition in greenhou se crops. Some of these techniques are now being tried in commercial greenh ouses and hold the promise of improved climate management for better yield and quality, and reductions in environmental impact. However, integration o f automated crop monitoring with computer environmental control systems is not yet commonplace, and will depend on the development of computer program s which incorporate the most appropriate real-time crop data into dynamic m odels.