Students from across Puerto Rico attended the NOAA CREST Summer Camp this week on the UPRM Campus. This afternoon, they attended a workshop by Dr. Eric Harmsen, which focused on the use of GOES-PRWEB for scheduling irrigation in Puerto Rico. Irrigation scheduling is important for water conservation and for achieving optimal crop yields. The presentation is provided below:
DOWNLOAD PDF PRESENTATION HERE
Impacts on Water Quality after Hurricane Sandy
NOAA – Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center
Center Director: Dr. Reza Khanbilvardi
The City College of New York
June 12, 2013
Cool!! Remotely accessible sensor for managing irrigation and other stuff. The device is sold by a Switzerland-based company called Koubachi. Too expensive for house plants but could be great for agricultural applications. http://allthingsd.com/20130613/high-tech-help-for-the-green-thumb-challenged/.
The review focuses on the remote (mobile) accessibility of the device, which is amazing, but doesn’t talk at all about how accurate the internal sensors are. If anyone has this information please leave a comment. I also will try to check on this.
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In this presentation a simple, web-based method for scheduling irrigation is presented. The presentation was given at the 8th Annual NOAA CREST Symposium, The City College of City University of New York, NY, June 5-6, 2013.
Solar radiation data can be downloaded for the Northern Caribbean Region. Daily, monthly and annual data are available.
Averages and totals of 25 Hydro-Climate variables for Puerto Rico for 2012 are now available at the following link:
http://academic.uprm.edu/hdc/GOES-PRWEB_ANNUAL_RESULTS/
Daily and monthly data are also available since 2009:
http://academic.uprm.edu/hdc/GOES-PRWEB_RESULTS/
http://academic.uprm.edu/hdc/GOES-PRWEB_MONTHLY_RESULTS/
GOES-PR-Web-estimated Surface Runoff for 2012 for Puerto Rico
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