{"id":21665,"date":"2021-04-30T19:12:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T23:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=21665"},"modified":"2021-05-02T09:55:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T13:55:35","slug":"southeastern-u-s-soil-moisture-network-build-out-and-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2021\/04\/southeastern-u-s-soil-moisture-network-build-out-and-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeastern U.S. Soil  Moisture Network Build-Out and Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the projects that Dr. George Vellidis (UGA-Tifton) and I are working on over the next few years was featured this week in the NOAA Weather Program Office newsletter at <a href=\"https:\/\/wpo.noaa.gov\/Resources\/Newsletters\">https:\/\/wpo.noaa.gov\/Resources\/Newsletters<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Project Outcomes will: Assess the viability of low-cost soil moisture sensors via test-bed calibration (AL, GA), expand the egional soil moisture network by installing viable versions of low-cost sensors in the existing networks (AL, FL), perform validation of remote sensing-derived root -zone soil moisture (AL,FL,GA), improve the Cropping Model System and develop additional crop-support tools (AL,GA), and ensure accessibility and usability of soil moisture data and products (AL,GA). By giving farmers access to low-cost local soil moisture measurements we hope that they will be able to improve their water use, leading to savings in irrigation costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/stripling-irrigation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"546\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/stripling-irrigation.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/stripling-irrigation.jpg 546w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/stripling-irrigation-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/stripling-irrigation-182x138.jpg 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the projects that Dr. George Vellidis (UGA-Tifton) and I are working on over the next few years was featured this week in the NOAA Weather Program Office newsletter at https:\/\/wpo.noaa.gov\/Resources\/Newsletters. The Project Outcomes will: Assess the viability of low-cost soil moisture sensors via test-bed calibration (AL, GA), expand the egional soil moisture network [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21675,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21665\/revisions\/21675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}