Soil moisture profile measurements are an integral component of water balance estimation networks, especially in thick vadose zones and fine-grained soil environments. At field sites with silty and ...

If you’ve got a smart home, or you just want to know how soaked your garden is getting in the winter, you might want to measure rainfall. There are a bunch of ways to go about it, and this capacitive ...

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Botanical sensors are turning greenery into living data networks while monitoring plant health and optimizing yields.

Indoor plants are notoriously tricky to keep healthy and alive, especially in winter. You're attempting to replicate a complex and naturally accommodating biome inside your home. Plants that thrive in ...

Abstract: Efficient and sustainable water management is essential for modern agriculture to mitigate challenges related to water scarcity and energy consumption. This paper presents a solar-powered ...

For decades, global soil moisture monitoring from space has depended on reference datasets. Satellite observations, while indispensable, are rarely used alone; instead, their retrieval algorithms are ...

The soil–vegetation mixture scenarios simulated in the LESS model. Subplots (A) to (C), (D) to (F), and (G) to (I) show tree, crop, and grass scenes, respectively, under low, medium, and high FVC.

Abstract: A multi-coil-based wireless stimulation and detection system was designed and demonstrated to enable an underground zero-DC-power passive spherical soil moisture sensor over an extended ...