During a recent Practical Applications of Soil Moisture Information webinar, South Dakota State Climatologist Laura Edwards described how her office uses information about soil moisture levels to ...

MTRI and the USDA Forest Service hosted a facilitated workshop, Monitoring Forest Soil Moisture for a Changing World, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on May 15-17, 2018. Speakers and participants from several ...

The National Integrated Drought Information System and the National Weather Service hosted the first in a two-part series of webinars on soil moisture data and applications. The first was held Feb. 22 ...

Ali Abedi (center) and the wireless soil moisture sensor with graduate student Kenneth Bundy (left) and local high school teacher Ed Lindsey (right). Monitoring soil moisture is an important component ...

Last summer, the Aspen Global Change Institute’s first subalpine soil-moisture and snowpack-monitoring station began transmitting live data to researchers, stakeholders and the Aspen water department.

Researchers have successfully tested a system that can monitor soil moisture using just a standard camera and an AI algorithm. The system holds huge potential as a simple, affordable solution for ...

Keeping soil moist is key to keeping most plants happy. It can be a pain having to dip one’s fingers into dirty soil on the regular, so it’s desirable to have a tool to do the job instead. [Andrew ...

A NASA satellite is poised for launch Thursday on a three-year $916 million mission to measure the amount of water in the top 2 inches of soil around the world to help scientists understand its ...

Additionally, increased soil thickness may diminish the topographic and rainfall controls on infiltration processes. These findings underscore the critical role of high-resolution monitoring in ...

Monitoring soil moisture is an important component of both forest management and agriculture, but existing systems need a ton of energy to work well and can be prohibitively expensive for researchers ...