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Down to Earth: Entrepreneurship in the Geosciences

Down To Earth: A podcast for Geoscientists by Geoscientist

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Soil Water Index Forcast

The tool is what we call the soil water index forcast too. The idea is to help farmers in africa, to create a tool from satellite data tho help farmers obtimize the harvest and reduce fungat losses. Our project area initially was in kana. And this area, the farmers, they suffered from a lot of alogging which leads to their farm produce either rottin on the farm because they can assess their farm or by the time they get itto the market, it's lost a lot of value. So the idea is to be able to predict for these farmers what the water loging situation will be like on any at least seven days.

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