Equipment Used in the Data Collection of Woodland Data
The photographs show some of the equipment used during a woodland investigation.
Amazingly, these photos were taken in a coniferous forest, in the daytime in July - it was pouring with rain!
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A Soil Temperature Probe sampling at systematical sampled transect Site 2 (at 2 metres). |
A Whirling Hygrometer used to measure % relative humidity (how much moisture is in the air). |
A Data Logger to measure relative humidity digitally - can be used to cross-check the Whirling Hygrometer recordings. |
A Light Meter measures light intensity in LUX - placed on the forest floor assesses the sunlight passing through the canopy layer to the layers below. | |