WaterWise an agtech Australian first: more crop per drop
Goanna Ag canopy sensor in CSIRO tomato trials near Swan Hill Vic. Image supplied by Goanna Ag
Goanna Ag canopy sensor in CSIRO tomato trials near Swan Hill Vic. Image supplied by Goanna Ag
We’ve announced a new partnership with Australian agtech company Goanna Ag that will see sensors and analytics combined to maximise every drop of irrigation water used to grow crops.
In an Australian first, Digiscape’s WaterWise is the only water-use efficiency product for irrigated crops that measures crop water stress and predicts future water needs in real time. The tech is set to help growers save water or produce more crop per drop.
Goanna Ag, which produces agricultural sensing systems for water-use efficiency, will be delivering WaterWise’s smart analytics as a data stream to their on-farm customers.
The WaterWise system ‘lets the plants do the talking’ with in-field sensors that measure the canopy temperature of crops every 15 minutes. It then sends the data to CSIRO’s sensor data infrastructure, adds in the weather forecast and uses machine learning to apply CSIRO’s unique algorithm to predict the crop’s water requirements for the next seven days.
Read more about our partnership with Goanna Ag.