Radar’s Potential Studied For Gathering Crop Data

Anew eye in the sky is being prepared for launch, and Canadian researchers will be among the first to figure out how to make it work for farmers. Ahead of the launch of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-1 satellite in 2011, an international team of researchers will collect space-borne radar images throughout the 2009

Remote Monitoring A Keystroke Away

When Bruce Shewfelt was looking for examples of remote irrigation monitoring one Saturday afternoon, all he had to do was log on to the Internet from his Morden office. The Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration consultant was almost immediately downloading information on reservoir levels, downstream flows below the reservoir and current use rates – from an