| A new, Third Generation Agri-Therm III™
Infrared Thermometer will be exhibited by Everest Interscience at the Joint
Meeting of the Geological Society of America, the American Soceity of
Agronomy, the Soil Science Society of America and the Crop Science Society
of America at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas,
October 5 through October 8, 2008. Everest will exhibit the Agri-Therm
III™, their Series 4000 Infrared Temperature Sensors and their
Vario-Therm™ Infrared Temperature Sensors with Intra-Optical Light
Sighting and Field-Focusable Optics at the meeting.
The Agri-Therm III™ is the third generation of
infrared thermometers for the natural environment manufactured and marketed
by Everest Interscience. This handheld infrared thermometer was
designed for making surface temperature measurements outdoors and has triple
the accuracy of previous infrared thermometers in the optimum working
temperature range of the instrument.
The major advantage of the Agri-Therm III™ is
that it allows for an increase in the accuracy of handheld infrared
thermometers used outdoors for natural environment applications to be
tripled in the temperature range that is of importance to agronomists and
growers. This temperature range is 0-50°C with ±0.25°C
accuracy and accuracy of ±0.5°C from -40-0°C
and from 50-100°C. This is an improvement over previous accuracy
specifications of ±0.5°C over the entire
range of -40-100°C. This alone improves accuracy.
A new standard feature on the Agri-Therm III™
is Everest's SKY-SPY™ System (Patent No. 4,420,265).
This feature corrects for unwanted sky radiation that is bounced off the
target into the infrared thermometer's optics. This new feature can
improve the accuracy by up to 2°C.
Other relevant features of the Agri-Therm
III™ include: Field-Focusable Optics or Vario-Zooom™
focus capabilities (Patent No. 7,355,178); TTL/SLR Intra-Optical Light
Sighting (Patent No. 4,494,881); and , the capability of reading the surface
temperature, the ambient air dry-bulb temperature and the difference between
them (Patent No. 4,301,682).
The Vario-Zooom™ focus allows
the end user to adjust the focus of the infrared thermometer in order to
make measurements of targets that are small, such as individual leaves and
then easily re-focus the infrared thermometer to take the temperature of a
crop canopy. The Agri-Therm III™ is focusable in the field or
laboratory.
The TTL/SLR (Through-the Lens/Single Lens
Reflex) Intra-Optical Light Sighting incorporates a light that goes directly
though the infrared optics to illuminate the exact target area being
measured. Since this light shares the path of the optics, it is
impossible for it to become misaligned from the optics due to harsh
treatment or dropping of the instrument.
The Agri-Therm III™ is a differential
infrared thermometer in that it can measure the temperature of the surface
of the target, the ambient air (dry-bulb) temperature and the difference
between the two. This differential temperature is vitally important to
obtaining accurate stress indicators for crops.
Another option on the Agri-Therm III™
is the addition of an embedded data acquisition system. This data
logger can hold up to 4 Million, time/date stamped readings.
Please stop by Booth No. 1121 to see a
demonstration of the Agri-Therm III™ , the Vario-Therm™ and
the Series 4000 infrared temperature sensors, some of which are wireless
with an embedded data acquistion system. Or log onto
www.EverestInterscience.com
to learn more about the instrumentation offered by Everest Interscience. |
September
12, 2008