Canopy productivity
Measure the photosynthetic activity of your plants using easy-to-use, labor-saving instruments, and better understand the health and lifecycle of your canopy.
Plant breeding
As a plant breeder, your work shapes the future of food, climate adaptation, and yield stability. But unlocking winning traits takes more than scoring outcomes. It takes seeing how plants respond to stress as it unfolds, across seasons, plots, and unpredictable conditions. What if you could capture plant response to drought stress the moment it happens, rather than after it's already passed? Your data needs to be real time and reliable, so you can identify stress-resilient genotypes earlier, catch subtle traits, shorten breeding cycles, and build datasets that actually match the complexity of the field.
Poor data can derail even strong genetics
You’re juggling dozens of genotypes, unpredictable weather, and narrow field windows. Every data point has to count, because without clear environmental context, even promising traits can be misunderstood or discarded. And most breeding programs are up against:
Incomplete data on soil moisture, temperature, or plant stress
Limited time windows for setup, teardown, and collection
High-stakes decisions made on partial or averaged data
Difficulty scaling across plots without losing consistency
In the field, you need tools you can count on. METER offers a suite of systems that simplify your workflow without compromising scientific integrity.
Our instruments are field-tested, research-backed, and built to help you capture and analyze critical data as it happens. Here are a few examples:
TEROS 12 and TEROS 22 sensors measure VWC, EC, temperature, and water potential directly in the root zone, helping you evaluate drought tolerance and water use traits.
ATMOS 41 weather stations capture precipitation, wind, radiation, and humidity, key data for contextualizing above-ground stress.
ZL6 data loggers and ZENTRA Cloud unify your environmental data so you can see plot-specific trends in real time, from anywhere.
Install fast. Sync instantly.
From setup to selection, you need environmental monitoring tools that will scale with your trials, not slow them down. METER gives you a simple, plug-and-play workflow to start collecting plot-level environmental data the same day you install.
Deploy TEROS and ATMOS sensors in representative plots across your trial blocks.
Connect to ZENTRA Cloud through ZL6 loggers to start seeing data in minutes.
Compare soil and atmosphere data with phenotypic observations to support better, faster selections.
Confident selection,
without the stress
If you’re missing environmental data, you don’t have complete context, and it’s hard to explain, or replicate, trait performance, which means:
Good genetics go undetected or mischaracterized
Field trials don’t translate into validated success
Years of effort can stall from inconsistent environmental data
Field trials don’t translate into validated success
Years of effort can stall from inconsistent environmental data
When your data is accurate and complete, your selections become faster, clearer, and more justifiable. With METER’s suite of monitoring tools:
You identify stress-resilient traits faster, with fewer field visits
You connect environmental conditions to crop outcomes in real time
You build trials that scale across locations without losing clarity
You connect environmental conditions to crop outcomes in real time
You build trials that scale across locations without losing clarity
""Of all of the soil sensors we tested, the TEROS 12 not only provided the most accurate readings, but now in production they have also survived our vigorous process. Outstanding product!""
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Plant breeding solutions
Collect high-quality environmental data that matches the rigor of your breeding science. Accurately track stress, resilience, and performance across the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum—as it happens—without overextending your team. Explore METER solutions for plant breeding.
Deploy NDVI sensors for long term canopy monitoring or gather point measurements with the easy to use, handheld AccuPAR LP 80.
Microenvironment canopy
Measuring the microclimate with a weather station provides comprehensive data on local atmospheric conditions that directly affect plant and soil processes. Weather stations collect detailed information on temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind speed, and solar radiation, all of which influence soil moisture levels, evaporation rates, and soil temperature.
Solar radiation, precipitation, air temperature, barometric pressure, vapor pressure, relative humidity, wind (speed, direction, and gust), and lightning strikes
Leaf wetness or frost
PAR
Wind speed, direction, and gust
- ATMOS 22 Z
Combining the precision of wind, radiation, and precipitation sensors above and below a canopy provides a continuous picture of the microclimate below a canopy.
Plant stress
Directly measure indicators and causes of plant stress rather than relying on intuition or qualitative assessments of your crops and canopy with using cost-effective solutions from METER.
Surface temperature
Stomatal conductance
Water potential
Microclimate
Vapor pressure deficit
Leaf wetness or frost
Combine water potential, wind, IR, and stomatal conductance measurements to precisely measure the causes and symptoms of plant water stress.
ZENTRA System
Customize your data collection and logging solution by combining multiple METER sensors with the ZL6 Data Logger and ZENTRA Cloud. ZENTRA stores your data in the cloud, allowing easy access to your data and near-real-time reports from all of your data loggers.
Avoid costly field visits by accessing your data from any web-connected device. Analyze it with ZENTRA Cloud’s built-in visualization tools, and easily share insights without tracking down log files on individual computers.
LABROS System
Streamline your laboratory analyses and reduce human error using the innovative LABROS soil science laboratory collection. Perform automated particle size analysis, generate soil moisture release curves, or measure thermal and hydraulic conductivity with METER laboratory instruments designed to produce accurate analyses in a fraction of the time of other methods.
Even better, LABROS instruments can be combined to perform all of these analyses from a single sample, saving time and reducing measurement errors due to variations in sample characteristics.
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