{"id":192247,"date":"2024-07-03T10:23:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T15:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/tiny-crop-health-sensors-could-help-cut-the-cost-of-groceries"},"modified":"2024-07-03T10:23:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T15:23:30","slug":"tiny-crop-health-sensors-could-help-cut-the-cost-of-groceries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/tiny-crop-health-sensors-could-help-cut-the-cost-of-groceries","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Crop-Health Sensors could help Cut the Cost of Groceries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-crop-health-sensors-could-help-cut-the-cost-of-groceries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A compact, lightweight sensor system with infrared imaging capabilities developed by an international team of engineers could be easily fitted to a drone for remote crop monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>This flat-optics technology has the potential to replace traditional optical lens applications for environmental sensing in a range of industries.<\/p>\n<p>This innovation could result in cheaper groceries as farmers would be able to pinpoint which crops require irrigation, fertilization and pest control, instead of taking a one-size-fits-all approach, thereby potentially boosting their harvests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A compact, lightweight sensor system with infrared imaging capabilities developed by an international team of engineers could be easily fitted to a drone for remote crop monitoring. This flat-optics technology has the potential to replace traditional optical lens applications for environmental sensing in a range of industries. This innovation could result in cheaper groceries as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1506,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-food","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}