NASA Satellite Can Monitor Most of World's Irrigation Canals, Study Finds

NASA satellite can monitor most of world's irrigation canals, study finds

Irrigation canals form a sort of circulatory system for global agriculture. Across the world, millions of kilometers of human-made canals carry water from lakes, rivers and reservoirs downhill to farmland. Canals are vitally important to human food production, yet many agricultural areas lack the means to monitor the ebb and flow of water through these waterways. This forces farmers and water managers to rely on scattered gauges, inspections and…

Environmental News Network - NASA Satellite Can Monitor Most of World’s Irrigation Canals, Study Finds

Irrigation canals form a sort of circulatory system for global agriculture. Across the world, millions of kilometers of human-made canals carry water from lakes, rivers and reservoirs downhill to farmland.

UW Study Finds NASA Satellite Can Map 85% Of Canals

A new study from the UW shows that a NASA satellite can measure water levels with moderate to high confidence at more than 85% of 800,000 kilometers of canals in Asia.

NASA’s SWOT satellite tracks most of the world’s irrigation canals,

Irrigation canals are the hidden circulatory system of global agriculture. Millions of kilometers of human-made channels carry water from rivers, lakes and reservoirs downhill to farmland, quietly sustaining harvests that feed billions of people. Yet for all their importance, most of these waterways are monitored poorly or not at all. Farmers and water managers in […]