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.