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7 stories matching “Evapotranspiration”.
CropX will supply soil, weather and water-use monitoring to an eight-year New Zealand programme comparing regenerative and conventional farming through a full potato rotation at Lincoln University.
NASA reported that OpenET expanded its evapotranspiration data and tools across the contiguous United States, extending a service originally focused on western states to support broader agricultural water assessment.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics introduced experimental irrigation-water estimates combining satellite observations and environmental models, with a methodological break from earlier survey-based figures that limits direct historical comparisons.
Michigan State University reports wider use of its irrigation app alongside research comparing soil sensors, evapotranspiration models and sap-flow measurements for scheduling water applications in apple orchards.
NASA reported the launch of OpenET’s FARMS interface in March 2025, bringing field comparisons, custom boundaries and repeatable evapotranspiration reports into a mobile-friendly tool for western U.S. agriculture.
FAO’s 2023 WaPOR expansion brought its satellite-based water-productivity service beyond Africa and the Near East, with Colombia and Pakistan joining capacity-building support for the platform.
A Jendouba pilot compares daily 10-metre evapotranspiration data with a coarser product, exposing both operational benefits and validation gaps.
