On 9 February 2024, Purdue University described a thermal remote-sensing protocol developed by its Plant Sciences team using the GRYFN platform. The aim was to turn airborne sensor recordings into temperature information that agricultural researchers could analyse.
The reported workflow began with UAV flights over research plots. Data processing then produced thermal imagery, followed by extraction of plot-level information into tables. Purdue explained that thermal measurements complement the structural and visible information available from other sensing systems.
The announcement emphasised the challenge of making measurements usable and noted that thermal processing methods were still developing. It described a research workflow, not a universal diagnostic rule: a temperature difference alone does not establish why a plant is stressed.
