Droop There It Is: Smart Irrigation with Deep Learning #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

via Team droop-there-it-is: Terry Rodriguez, Salma Mayorquin on hackster.io

We must meet the challenges of: climate change, an increasing population, the politics of water-access rights, and the need to produce crops in resource constrained environments, like space. Each scenario demands that we enforce greater constraints on water usage. We must become more efficient in our food production technologies to sustain our civilization.

Deficit Irrigation provides a framework for rationing water resources to produce crops by incorporating information on natural weather patterns and periods of drought tolerance in plant development for irrigation scheduling.

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