A poor stand costs yield long before anyone can prove it. Emergence is judged from a few counts along a transect, too late and too local to trigger replanting, adjust inputs or flag the plots of a trial that never established properly.
A PhenoScale flight a few days after emergence measures Plant Count, Plant Density, Plant Gaps Count and Plant Gaps Percentage on every plot or across the whole field. Cloverfield maps emergence uniformity and locates the gaps.
Growers and trial managers get an early, objective read on establishment across the whole field, in time to trigger replanting, adjust inputs or flag compromised plots, before a poor stand has already cost yield. Validated on maize and sunflower trials of several thousand plots.
