Steward camera is a dual camera portable phenotyping platform. It uses RGB and NIR cameras to create vegetative indexes, and then uses those to track plant health over time. From these indexes, we can look for yield inhibitors, identify phenotypes, track the growth rate and identify plants that can survive higher heat and other extreme weather.
A phenotype is set of observable characteristics that result from a genotype interacting with an environment. If we know the exact plant strain and environmental data like temperature or soil pH, we can catalog the plant strains phenotypes. We can use this data for breeding better strains, finding better strains for a given environment, or finding strains that handle climate change.
Code is available on Github: