Upcoming edition: Predicting crops, predicting how fires spread – all from 800 km above the earth

Water or no water is equivalent to success and failure in agriculture. Understanding soil moisture will be one of the key technologies for future growth and preventing disasters. Satellites provide free and precise data already – but only very few people are able to convert this information into valuable assessments for growers. We talked to one company that is able to see through the clouds and predict crop performance.