With its antenna now spinning at full speed, NASA’s new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory has successfully re-tested its science instruments and generated its first global maps, a key ...

Advanced technology can help farmers get to the root of a growing problem—overwatering in an era of increasing drought and ...

A new UC Riverside system can map soil moisture tree by tree, so growers water only where and when it’s needed.

BOULDER, Colo. — A partnership between the University of Colorado Boulder and a local technologies company has led to the most detailed soil moisture mapping ever seen. The sensor is an L-band Lobe ...

Scientists working with data from NASA's Aquarius instrument have released worldwide maps of soil moisture, showing how the wetness of the land fluctuates with the seasons and weather phenomena.

When seeds are planted beneath the soil they enter a new world—a world farmers have long tried to understand and perfect. What would you do if you had a window that showed what is going on beneath the ...

The following information is a Web Extra from the pages of Farm Journal. It corresponds with the article “Drought Probability?” You can find the article in Farm Journal’s 2013 March issue. Maps that ...

As severe weather hazards continue to afflict parts of the country to historic extremes, Professor Dara Entekhabi of the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and a team of NASA ...

A new soil-moisture retrieval strategy has improved the accuracy of satellite-based moisture mapping by combining microwave reflection signals with vegetation-structure information that conventional ...