GROW Observatory

= "help efforts to forecast and prepare for climate events, such as heat waves and floods, by validating the detection of soil moisture from satellites".

URL = http://growobservatory.org/

"Our vision is to support the emergence of a movement of citizens generating, sharing and using information on growing and the land."

Description

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"The GROW Observatory (GROW) is a European-wide project engaging thousands of growers, scientists and others passionate about the land. We will discover together, using simple tools to better manage soil and grow food, while contributing to vital scientific environmental monitoring." (http://growobservatory.org/about/(

2.

"The GROW Observatory aims to underpin smart and sustainable custodianship of land and soil, whilst meeting the demands of future food production. Together we also aim to solve a longstanding challenge for space science, and help efforts to forecast and prepare for climate events, such as heat waves and floods, by validating the detection of soil moisture from satellites." (http://growobservatory.org/)

Status

"We will start small scale during the 2017 growing season, when you can join us to help co-create the experiments." [1]