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 ...

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.

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 ...

Droughts are worsening around the world due to global warming. More places are running short of water for agriculture. Scientists have developed technology to solve agriculture's water shortage. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

Precision irrigation robot shows how soil variation changes water needs, reducing waste and boosting orchard efficiency.

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 ...

MU Extension and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources are working together to gather drought data. The DNR came up ...