Ian Ashdown, P. Eng., FIES, Senior Scientist, SunTracker Technologies Ltd. Published: 2016/12/09 Horticultural lighting is currently one of the fastest-expanding markets in commercial lighting, with projected revenues of several billion dollars in less than a...
Photometry and Photosynthesis
Ian Ashdown, P. Eng., FIES, Senior Scientist, SunTracker Technologies Ltd. Published: 2014/12/10 UPDATE 15/04/13 -- This article was first published on December 10, 2014. A revised version was published as "LED Lighting for Horticulture" in the Mar/Apr 2015...
Horticultural Lighting Metrics
Ian Ashdown, P. Eng., FIES, Senior Scientist, SunTracker Technologies Ltd. Published: 08/04/2017 UPDATE 17/08/26 - This article was first published on August 25th, 2017 in Urban Ag News. It was all so easy until recently. Plants require light in...
Climate-Based Daylight Modeling
Ian Ashdown, P. Eng., FIES, Senior Scientist, SunTracker Technologies Ltd. Published: 2016/03/26 daylight, n. The light of day. Apart from having a wonderfully circular definition in most English-language dictionaries, daylight really is just another form...
Botanical Light Pollution
Ian Ashdown, P. Eng., FIES, Senior Scientist, SunTracker Technologies Ltd. Published: 2016/02/17 Blue-rich light from LED streetlights, we are told, is the nemesis of professional and amateur astronomers. Blue light is preferentially scattered by the atmosphere,...