With its antenna now spinning at full speed, NASA’s new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory has successfully re-tested its science instruments and generated its first global maps, a key ...

The following information is a Web Extra from the pages of Farm Journal. It corresponds with the article “Drought Probability?” You can find the article in Farm Journal’s 2013 March issue. Maps that ...

Droughts are worsening around the world due to global warming. More places are running short of water for agriculture. Scientists have developed technology to solve agriculture's water shortage. A ...

A new downscaling method has been developed to generate high-resolution surface soil moisture (SSM) data for mountainous regions. By integrating land surface temperature (LST) and vegetation index (VI ...

Scientists working with data from NASA's Aquarius instrument have released worldwide maps of soil moisture, showing how the wetness of the land fluctuates with the seasons and weather phenomena.

A new NASA satellite that will peer into the topmost layer of Earth’s soils to measure the hidden waters that influence our weather and climate is in final preparations for a Jan. 29 dawn launch from ...

A NASA satellite launched just seven months ago has lost the use of one of two science instruments, but the space agency said Wednesday that the mission to map global soil moisture will continue. NASA ...

NASA scientists and experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have teamed up to map global soil moisture by satellite. The Soil Moisture Active-Passive (SMAP) mission will be the first to ...