Commercial

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In addition to supporting UK academia, the facility also has the capacity to work with British industry, offering our full variety of services available to academics. FSF has engaged and collaborated with British industry several times through equipment loans and calibration/validation projects. All commercial collaborations with FSF are intended to advance innovation and technical excellence, while ensuring they do not directly compete with services provided by British industry.

In collaboration with agricultural entrepeneurs, Messium, our Headwall Co-Aligned system was used to survey and understand the spread of potato blight.

“The NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility were highly supportive of our R&D activities, helping Messium lead the world in hyperspectral machine learning analysis of agriculture. Our collaboration achieved an unprecedented level of detail, assessing crops in-season through a unique combination of lab tests, field spectroscopy, hyperspectral drones and state-of-the-art hyperspectral satellites—all deployed in parallel. This comprehensive analysis across both spatial and spectral resolutions enabled Messium to accelerate its research at the fastest possible pace.”

Other previous partnerships with FSF include ClydeHSI, PeakDesign, University College Dublin, Analytik, and Global Trust Group.

Application Process

If you are interested in partnering with FSF, please contact us via email at fsf@nerc.ac.uk regarding your project’s requirements. We offer a variety of services that provide a unique research and development perspective, with fair, market rates. We are more than happy to discuss your project, please enquire for more information.