Day: January 21, 2010

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Agriculture is the largest industry in Idaho, but large areas of the state rely on irrigation to provide water for crops. Irrigated farms in southern Idaho use water from both the Snake River and the Snake River Plain aquifer. (Photograph ©2005 p.m.graham.)

Water Watchers

Landsat doesn’t measure water vapor directly, but evaporating and transpiring water takes energy, something Landsat does observe. If they knew how much energy was going into driving evapotranspiration, Morse and Allen could estimate how much water a particular field of crops had consumed on any particular day.

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