GRYFN, a Purdue Strategic Ventures portfolio company, is automating labor intensive data gathering and processing, to augment rather than replace human talent to enable deeper, faster insights. A new partnership and technology deployment of eleven GRYFN sensing solutions to a network of Australian universities, the Australian Plant Phenomics Network (APPN), underscores the expansive possibilities of GRYFN’s solutions. The network provides open access to state-of-the-art plant phenotyping infrastructure to enable research excellence and innovation for sustainable agriculture.
The solutions feature Headwall hyperspectral-imaging camera systems and use multimodal sensing, collecting hyperspectral, LiDAR, and RGB data in a unified framework developed by GRYFN. Leveraging a high-end GPS and sophisticated engineering approaches, they align each data set for a clear image, delivering research-grade, aligned maps in three dimensions. With this integration, researchers have access to a deeper, more accurate, and more scalable understanding of complex systems to augment their laboratory and field data collections.
“It’s incredible and commendable that this small, focused team has come up with such a sophisticated technology, rivaling many multinational corporations,” said David Blair, Chief Product Officer at Headwall. “Our strategic partnership has allowed us to share and adopt best practices from mission planning through data processing, improving our customer’s experience with our products. It’s easy to see opportunity to further leverage this platform for research into food and water availability, forest health, greenhouse gas emissions monitoring, and much more.”