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5.7Subsection · 5 applications

Water Stress Systems

Farmer kneeling over severely cracked dry soil in an arid agricultural field — Cracked soil signals water stress that satellite monitoring can detect early, helping farmers act before crops fail.

Satellite Water Stress Monitoring: Field to Decision

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Observation
Multispectral satellites measure soil moisture, NDVI
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Downlink
Raw imagery relayed to regional ground stations
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Analytics
Evapotranspiration and water-deficit indices computed
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Decision tool
Farmers receive irrigation alerts via mobile app

Satellite sensors feed soil-moisture and vegetation data into analytics platforms, delivering actionable water-stress alerts to farmers in near real time.

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Water Stress Systems

5 applications.

Applications

5.7.1 Groundwater Depletion Monitoring — Measuring subsurface water storage loss at basin scale by combining satellite gravimetry, InSAR land subsidence mapping and multi-spectral soil-moisture indices.
5.7.2 Reservoir Storage Tracking — Measuring surface area, water level and volumetric storage of reservoirs from orbit using radar altimetry, optical imagery and synthetic aperture radar.
5.7.3 River Flow Estimation — Measuring river surface width, slope and velocity from orbit to derive discharge estimates across gauged and ungauged river networks.
5.7.4 Glacier Mass Balance — Measuring glacier volume change over time using satellite radar altimetry, SAR interferometry and multispectral imagery to quantify ice loss and downstream water availability.
5.7.5 Drought Early Warning — Integrating satellite-derived soil moisture, vegetation stress and land surface temperature to issue drought alerts weeks before ground stations detect them.