Information on climate is of vital importance for every farming operation and influences almost every daily operation. An investment in one`s own automatic weather station offers a complete new dimension in environmentally sound plant protection, correct fertilization, optimal irrigation scheduling and many more enterprises. In most cases the investment in Metos systems will pay for itself within a year by using less chemicals and optimizing the use of resources.

Thanks to our long experience we have been able to design an electronic weather station instrument which can be installed, used and serviced without hassle, quickly and efficiently. All our weather stations have on site storage of all weather data up to 3 months. The sensors we us have been proven to be very accurate, reliable. With few service intervals, cost and time are reduced to a minimum.

 Research

 Golf Courses

 Fire and hazard warnings

 Artificial snow making systems

 Airport weather stations

 Forestry

 Waste and Garbage Tips

 Hydrographical measurements

 Country & Health Parks

 Storage Control

 Museums, Libraries and Building Sites and many others

Our weather stations can be accessed with the latest communication possibilities: Notebook, Modem, Radio. Satellite, and direct line will open complete new cost effective applications in many fields.

Metos weather stations can be used as a single and/or network station. The automatic microclimate logging provides the opportunity of making the right decision at the correct time, communicate better with your consultant, because of the easy and effective way in which weather data files can be exchanged. It gives the security to have made the best decision at the right time.

Every unit has alarm ports which can be programmed through the PC which will alert the user when a dangerous situation (i.e. frost warning, plant protection need etc. ) has accurred or is about to happen. The alarms can automatically be used to start or stop pump stations (i.e. irrigation applications) and/or be sent by modem to alert a group of people of some event such as frost warning etc.

The software runs under Windows and uses modern standardized data bases (Paradox). These data bases will allow you to directly use the data in various other programs and formats such as Excel, dBase, Access etc. and/or in different prognostic models.

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Metos Compact is the modern "work horse" of the warning and monitoring service. The station can accept many of additional sensors and consists of a single watertight (IP65) enclosure where the power, sensors and datalogging system is integrated.

The data transfer is handled as with all other models through the standardized RS 232 interface. All-around meteorological climate station supporting in total 14 sensors :

 3 Temperature Sensors

 2 Relative Humidity Sensors

 2 Leaf Wetness Sensors

 1 Day Length Sensor

 1 Rain Gauge

 1 Global Radiation Sensor

 1 Wind Speed Sensor

 1 Wind Directions Sensor

 1 Barometric Pressure Sensor

 1 Watermark Soil Moisture Sensor

Metos Compact is supporting Remote Data Access via :

 Serial Cable

 Land Line Telephone

 GSM Telephone

 Radio

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Instantaneous read out of Disease & Pest warnings, crop specific evapotranspiration frost, fire warnings, climate studies and many more...

Micro Metos is designed to support growers with real time data on daily crop water consumption and precipitation over a complete growing season. The instrument will automatically calculate the ET crop based on temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and global radiation and transform this data into ET crop.

micro Metos is designed to be very flexible and open for new applications to come. Site specific frost warnings, bush fire warnings, climatic studies etc. The two lines 16 character display on the Metos shows you the climate data and all the disease simulation results in real time. Simple to service and use as all functions are available by one rotary switch and two buttons. Easy to transport, easy to mount and disassemble. The data logger together with the sensors for temparature, relative humidity, brightness and solar radiation, has only a height of 270mm(11.7 in) and is 115mm (5 in) in diameter.

No cable and expensive data transmission needed.

A Product Line of these small easy to install Agrometeorological climate stations consisting of 3 different products

 Micro Metos ag for Infield Climate Monitoring

 Micro Metos sm for climate and Soil Moisture

 Micro Metos cp for Soil Moisture Measurement with Delta T probes

Serial Communication with PC, Printer or Windows CE handheld PC is done via Infrared port

Data Presentation in Micro Metos an example :

Grape Vine Downy Mildew data presentation on Micro Metos display

Due to the limited space on the Micro Metos display all values which are calculated from 0 to 100 are shown from 0 to 10(X). Unfortunately this display is very complex.

Micro Metos display shows the presence of Macrosporangia and sporangia as asterisk. Infection is shown as value from 0 to 10(X). = means no infection in progress. 1 to 9 means infection in progress and 10 means infection finished. Incubation counters are shown in similar way.

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One of the most effective ways of transmitting data is by radio modem. With the METOS-technology we are able to offer a modem at low cost, low power consumption, highly reliable, with different frequencies and connected directly into the Metos RS232 Interface in a rugged IP65 protected case. As standard a quarter wave whip aerial is supplied which is suitable for short and medium range (7 km or 5 Miles) applications. Every unit acts (if ordered), as a radio relay for other units, thus making possible almost unlimited wireless telemetry point to point links. The distance between two points varies on the conditions of the terrain and the antennas height, ranging from 7 up to 20 km (5 to 12 miles).

The program works under the graphic WINDOWS platform and will give accurate, site specific warnings regarding best timing for disease and pest management, and use of herbicides and insecticides in different crops or turf. MetWin is based on the easy to learn and use Windows format and requires and IBM-PC or IBM compatible Personal computer or Portable (higher than 80386) with VGA colour monitor, and free hard disk of at least 10 MB.

Metwin II and MicroLink are supporting the administration of an unlimited number of climate stations

 Online communication and data presentation

 Easy datalogger programming through PC

 Data transfer and analysis through MET9 WIN software

 Modular design (DLL`s)

 Interface to other prognostic programs such as expert systems

 Networking facility with automatic data transfer

 Modem/Radio data transmission software

 Display and print out of files on screen and/or printer

 Hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly summary of data in graphical or table form

 Editing or selection of segments database

 Selected database and handling of various weatherstations

 Choice of different data bases for use on data on different external programs

 Supports various data formats (Paradox, ASCII, dBase) and conversion programs for data import and export

 Manual or automatic data transfer (batch file)

 Disease warning

 Insect warning

 Seeding and Planting

 Irrigation

 Frost protection

The program works under the graphic WINDOWS platform and will give accurate, site specific warnings regarding best timing for disease and pest management, and use of herbicides and insecticides in different crops or turf.

The premise is that for the start of many fungal diseases special climatic conditions must be fulfilled in order the infection take place and the disease to spread. Many fungal diseases can only be treated during the time between infection and appearance of the symptoms (Incubation period). The program uses daily actual weather data from the weather station in the field. With this information the PC will give accurate information about the infections risk during this period.

 Reduce losses from insect and disease pests

 Accurately time pesticide applications

 Choose correct spray material

 Make these decisions with confidence and without delay

 Reduce expenses by eliminating unnecessary treatments

 Provide continuous documentation of why treatments were made

 Promote customer loyalty by demonstrating your concern for the environment and worker safety

 24-hour support for your pest management decisions

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Customized models are available with Automatic Weather Stations. Contact METOS for scientific research.

Apple Scab Ascospore Infection

Potato Late Blight Infection

Tomato Late Blight Infection

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