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Spinoff story
Pulling Moisture Data from the Air
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
Situated in the river delta that supplies most of California’s freshwater, Brett Baker’s family pear farm in Sacramento County is required to monitor its water use. It was impossible to get useful data, though, until the release of OpenET, a platform that uses Landsat data to calculate evapotranspiration.