Soil Moisture Measurement From Space?

This is Tim Hammerich of the Ag Information Network with your Farm of the Future Report.

Sensors have a come a long way, but when measuring something like soil moisture, you really want to get a total field picture not just limited to an area around a sensor. Nave Analytics CEO Jessi Korinek says they’ve figured out how to measure soil moisture via satellite, allowing them to provide this data to farmers anywhere in the world at a relatively low cost.

Korinek… “We are using remote sensing satellite signals that looks at soil moisture. So we are able to actually create a map of soil moisture across an entire field boundary, the variability amongst the field down to a meter deep, so root zone soil moisture, and then that is updated daily.”

Korinek said they can integrate with other sensors and data sources, but no additional hardware is needed to start using the service.

Korinek… “And then on top of that soil moisture data, we are doing crop water use, bringing in the weather information, making all that work together so that we actually have a complete picture of what's happening with water moving through the soil how the crop is using it, and we're losing it through vapor transpiration and creating really good information that's updated daily, so fresh when you need to make an irrigation decision.”

That’s Jessi Korinek with Nave Analytics.