On-farm Consulting

  • Research and monitoring instrumentation
  • Measurement of crop water consumption and irrigation efficiency
  • Monitoring crop water stress
  • Mitigating frost, drought, and extreme weather damage
  • Soil mapping and GPS field surveys

Water Resources & Hydrology

  • Water and carbon flux monitoring using eddy-covariance and surface renewal methods
  • Hydrologic model development, emphasizing parameterization of boundary conditions, evaluation of modelled physical mechanisms, and data-driven validation of model outputs
  • Interpretation and ground-truthing of remote sensing data, especially ET models
  • Statistical analysis of hydrologic and ET data, crop water productivity
  • Machine learning analysis of time-series, specializing in LSTM neural networks and other supervised regression methods

Sensor Development & Calibration Services

  • Design, installation, and maintenance of sensors systems (flux, weather, soil sensors, etc.)
  • Innovation in low cost sensor technology
  • Programming and installation of dataloggers and telemetry
  • Calibration of thermohygrometers, IR gas analyzers, anemometers, other meteorological sensors
  • Site-specific calibration of TDR, capacitance, and other soil sensors