They combined data from two advanced satellite systems, the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) and the Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT), providing more precise and reliable soil moisture data. Phys.org ...

Accurate soil moisture measurements are important for optimizing the use of pumped ground water in precision agriculture. To this end the CU Center for Environmental Technology (CET) has developed a ...

The SMAP satellite was launched Jan. 31 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on a three-year, $916 million mission to map soil moisture around the globe and determine whether the soils are ...

The LDCR provides a means of mapping soil moisture on spatial scales as small as several meters (i.e., the height of the platform). Compared with various other proposed methods of validation based on ...

"This downscaling method represents a major advancement in accurately mapping soil moisture in complex terrains. By ...

Canadian scientists at universities and federal government departments across the country have been involved in the satellite mission, which will map the amount of soil moisture in the top five ...

In collaboration with the OSU High Performance Computing Center, Ochner’s team created a unique high resolution mapping system for Oklahoma. “This system takes daily soil moisture observations ...