Thermal imaging of canopy temperature

Sophie Fauset, from the University of Plymouth, and her student William Brown, visited the lab for a week in early November. Sophie is PI of the netCTF, or Network for Monitoring Canopy Temperature of Forests, a project funded by the U.K.’s Natural Environment Research Council in 2020. Sophie and William presented their work at the BiFOR (Birmingham Institute of Forest Research) FACE (Free Air CO2 Enrichment) facility in the UK and at the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana in a mini-symposium on canopy temperature that was organized by Jen. Jen, Mostafa, Sophie, and William also worked together on camera calibration and image processing protocols, including head-to-head field testing of thermal cameras manufactured by FLUKE and FLIR.