"The speed and efficiency that TurfScout® delivers for collecting, analyzing, and understanding turf health is phenomenal, a giant step forward in how we evaluate our turf plots."

"As Product Development Manager for Bayer Environmental Science I applaud the steps TurfScout® has taken to help the industry to quantify turf health. It provides the platform to provide unequivocal data for our products."

"The services provided by TurfScout® could allow four times the number of experimental lines to be evaluated due to the speed and precision of their evaluation, possibly making identification of a more stress tolerant cultivar less like finding a 'needle in a haystack'."

"We have begun to integrate TurfScout into our turf research evaluation program as part of standard turf quality assessments. TurfScout allows us to rapidly and objectively screen new plant health promoters and compare the performance of disease management programs. We are steadily growing in confidence with this technology and believe that it will take us to the next level when it comes to non-destructive methods of evaluating turfgrass performance."

"TurfScout is a service that applies cutting edge spectral data technology to commercial use in turf production, turf management and chemical development and testing."

"As a test of the TurfScout system, one Georgia golf course monitored three greens using a cart-mounted spectral sensor. The sensor used in this example is an "active" light sensor, which means it has its own light source and records the amount of light that's reflected back. The reflected energy in the red and near-infrared is then used to calculate a vegetation index. More than one type of index may be calculated, but the two most commonly used indices are the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and the ratio vegetation index (RVI). In either case, as turf quality improves the index increases. "