SoilWaterNow: Soil water nowcasting for the grains industry
Investment
GRDC Code: UOS2002-001RTX
SoilWaterNow: Soil water nowcasting for the grains industry
This project will deliver a scientific framework to nowcast plant available water (PAW) at any point in time, within and across paddocks and at multiple depths in the soil profile so that growers can have access to innovative products for monitoring, managing and forecasting PAW on-farm. The project will test, develop and refine data-driven, data assimilation, hybrid soil water balance model and ensemble-based approaches (ie different analytical frameworks) to predicting PAW.
- Project start date:
- 28/02/2020
- Project end date:
- 30/05/2025
- Crop type:
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- All Crops
- Organisation
- University of Sydney
- Region:
- North, South, West
- Project status
-
Active
GRDC News
GroundCover Supplement
SoilWaterNow: space technology in your paddock
02 Jun 2024
Progress in Earth observation and computing now enable soil water estimates at different depth increments...
GroundCover Supplement
Nowcasting plant-available soil water
16 Jun 2021
Improved plant-available water predictions are being developed using scaleable, modular modelling frameworks that can be...
GroundCover Supplement
On and off-farm data systems to power...
07 Apr 2020
Crop phenology, frost and soil plant-available water decision-support tools get analytics upgrade.
Update papers
- 23 Feb 2025, Nowcasting of plant available water (PAW) - GRDC
- 28 Feb 2024, Predicting and mapping grain protein content to better understand variability – utilising John Deere’s new Harvestlab™ 3000 grain sensing system - GRDC
- 14 Feb 2024, Where AI adds value to agronomic and crop decision-making now, and where might this technology be in 5 years? - GRDC