High Resolution Soil Moisture Measurements from Uncrewed Aerial Systems
The Soil Moisture Company is a joint venture between Black Swift Technologies, Weather Stream, and the University of Colorado Center for Environmental Technology. The company provides hardware solutions and data services for mapping soil moisture over diverse terrain at high resolution. The company has developed a novel, patent pending L-band Differential Correlation Radiometer and soil moisture retrieval algorithm.
Drone-mounted systems for greater data coverage
Precise measurements of soil moisture levels
Instruments designed and built in-house by our RF experts
Fully customisable to your needs and requirements
Proven commercial results
Systems have been delivered to multiple customers and flight services are available today on a limited basis. Customers include NASA, NOAA, US Air Force, University of Colorado, University of Virginia, the USGS, multiple farms, and golf courses.
The data sets on display above are from a recent flight campaign performed in partnership with the NOAA SPLASH program.