A plant never whispers when it needs water. It wilts, it droops, it gives up—often long before anyone notices. That silent ...

The National Integrated Drought Information System and the National Weather Service hosted the first in a two-part series of webinars on soil moisture data and applications. The first was held Feb. 22 ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation ...

Photo: CU-Boulder aerospace engineering sciences Professor Kristine Larson. A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a wireless system that uses radio transmitters and receivers to estimate soil moisture in agricultural fields at multiple depths in real ...

Caltech researchers have developed a new method to measure soil moisture in the shallow subterranean region between the surface and underground aquifers. This region, called the vadose zone, is ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The newest mission from NASA will soon provide detailed data as it closely monitors the on-going drought. The system is designed to scratch below the earth's surface. NASA's ...

A University of Colorado Boulder research team says they will be using drones to measure soil moisture at a test irrigation farm in northeast Colorado. Professor Brian Argrow tells the Daily Camera ...

A group of researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has unveiled a pioneering method to measure soil moisture in the vadose zone-the shallow region between the earth's surface ...

Using state of the art techniques, researchers use vibrations from traffic to measure underground soil moisture. Caltech researchers have developed a new method to measure soil moisture in the shallow ...