AQUAFLEX
in Forestry

The forestry industry is increasingly making full use of technology to monitor the growth of young trees and optimize the productivity of plantations.

The production of trees remains a growth industry (no pun intended!).

Many growers employ a policy that demands the planting of new trees at a much greater level than trees are being felled.

One of the benefits of AQUAFLEX's flexible sensor is that it can be installed right into the heart of the rootzone.

It can remain there throughout the life of the tree and can therefore provide valuable information to be used in management decisions in the optimization of quality and growth.

In relatively short rootzones a single sensor can provide continuous monitoring, whilst in deep root zones a second sensor can monitor at a different level.
In many cases AQUAFLEX is installed at an angle down through the rootzone to give an average of the moisture content of the entire zone.

One of the benefits of AQUAFLEX's unique spatial averaging principle is that inaccuracies associated with probe type moisture measurement techniques are eliminated.

The fact that AQUAFLEX measures a large sample size and area, in comparison to the very small sphere of measurement associated with probes, means that less sensor are required for a given area of land.

This is due to the repeatability and accuracy that results from AQUAFLEX's measurement technique.

AQUAFLEX can be used in multi-sensor logging situations or by simple logging sensors in a field.

In large plantations data can be transmitted to the farm by radio transmitters situated at each sensor.