Technology Fact Sheets

Learn more and have a handy summary of the diverse plant phenotyping technologies currently available through APPN Nodes - including specific capabilities and applications. 

Climate-controlled growth chambers

Last updated: August 12, 2026

Shipping container based high precision chambers with independent control of temperature, relative humidity, multispectral LED light and CO2.

Drought & Heat Phenotyping Platform

Last updated: August 12, 2026

Twin fully automated, controlled environment rooms enabling parallel experiments with diverse watering protocols and drought + heat scenarios.

Field and Mobile Phenotyping

Last updated: August 12, 2026

A consistent national ecosystem of field phenotyping platforms and sensor technologies, available via all six of our field phenotyping Nodes.

High-throughput Smarthouses

Last updated: August 12, 2026

Fully automated, high-throughput watering and phenotyping of up to 2,400 plants per day with RGB, fluorescence and hyperspectral imaging

Hyperspectral imaging and analysis

Last updated: August 12, 2026

Hand-held to field-scale hyperspectral platforms for early detection of biotic and abiotic plant stresses in agriculture, horticulture and viticulture.

Multispectral 3D Scanning

Last updated: August 12, 2026

Multispectral 3D scanning services enable researchers to monitor plants non-invasively over time.

Plant Growth Facility

Last updated: January 15, 2026

Biosecure (PC2 and quarantine-certified) reach-in growth chambers at ANU, with adjacent biosecure scanning and imaging facilities.

Software services

Last updated: August 12, 2026

APPN specialists can provide or develop a range of software, computer vision and machine learning tools to streamline plant phenotyping.

X-Ray CT Scanner

Last updated: August 12, 2026

The new X-Ray Computed Tomography (CT) scanner provides advanced phenotyping technology to look inside the plant, head (spike) and seed.