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Farmers Get Tools from Space
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
IrriWatch BV of Wageningen, Netherlands, uses streams of publicly available data from NASA-built instruments in orbit, including the Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to calculate plant stress and other factors important to agriculture for farmers’ fields all over the world. Farmers now buy the near-real-time information as a subscription-based service.