This entry into the 2025 Pet Hacks Contest is about bringing some fun feedback to normally silent plants. Fytó integrates sensors and displays into a 3D printed planter. The sensors read the ...

Monitoring soil moisture is an essential aspect of comprehending the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. However, the cost of commercial sensors often challenges their acquisition. In response to ...

Healthy soil is the foundation of our food, clean water, and a stable climate, and cutting-edge science helps us to protect ...

The Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized computer capable of running full-fledged Linux distributions such as Raspberry Pi OS, ...

In recent years, the emergence of sensor technologies has highlighted the key role of in situ soil moisture measurement in various hydrological, agricultural, and ecological applications. However, the ...

Avoid cutting your grass too short—longer grass shades the soil, keeping it cooler and reducing moisture loss through evaporation. It also protects the crown of the grass plant, where the ...

Kim Delay can think of at least two good reasons why tree fruit growers in Washington state should invest in soil moisture sensors: 1) every block, let alone farm, has its own soil profile, and 2) ...

Abstract: In this article, surface soil moisture was retrieved from Radarsat-2 and polarimetric target decomposition data by using semiempirical models and machine learning methods. The semiempirical ...

we divide the profile into discrete depths around the soil moisture sensors in each soil layer as described by the following equation: Calculate the depth of soil water stored in each time step ...

CRITERIA 1D is a one-dimensional agro-hydrological model. It includes soil water fluxes, crop development and crop water needs, a GIS interface (CRITERIA GEO) for geographical simulations and tools to ...