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P & M Technologies collaborates with scientists around the world on projects leading to innovative products and services based on plant science. We are presently involved in the development of space-based technologies in plant physiology.

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Gina Mohammed
Dan Pernokis

"We are pleased to be involved in a new & exciting area of research that may one day permit detection of stressed crops and forests from satellites in space..."
– Dr. Gina Mohammed

ESA's Earth Explorer satellites provide an important contribution to the global endeavour to further our understanding of the Earth system as a whole.

FLEX – Earth Explorer

P & M Technologies is an active participant in the European Space Agency's Living Planet Programme as a member of the FLuorescence EXplorer (FLEX) project team.

The FLEX mission proposal is one of ESA's two candidate Earth Explorer 8 missions, selected in November 2010 from 31 proposals received by ESA from international science teams. (A comprehensive programmatic and technical assessment resulted in ESA's Earth Science Advisory Committee picking the two most scientifically relevant and programmatically feasible concepts for further evaluation.)

The FLEX mission aims to provide global maps of vegetation fluorescence, which can be converted into an indicator of photosynthetic activity. These data would improve our understanding of how much carbon is stored in plants and their role in the carbon and water cycles.

Dr. Gina Mohammed, P & M's Research Director, helped to pioneer chlorophyll fluorescence applications for early detection of plant stress in forest species. She has published extensively on this topic and brings this expertise to the FLEX team.

Click here for more information about ESA's LIVING PLANET Programme

Click here for future mission proposals in ESA's LIVING PLANET Programme

European Space Agency

The United Nations General Assembly declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests
to raise awareness of sustainable management, conservation, and sustainable development
of all types of forests. P&M Technologies is happy to be a part of this endeavour.