The innovation of the agricultural soil moisture and irrigation status (a SOM is) platform is the development of operational and moderate resolution mapping and assessment of soil moisture, irrigation…

This is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Applied Geosolutions LLC, a small for-profit limited liability company. The contract, valued at $121,659.00, is for the development of the Agricultural Soil Moisture and Irrigation Status (ASOMIS) platform, which will utilize synthetic aperture radar and optical satellite data to provide operational mapping and assessment of soil moisture, irrigation status, and crop water stress metrics at the field scale to support agricultural decision-making tools. The ASOMIS platform is intended to help address shortcomings in the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, develop a pipeline between NASA and U.S. Department of Agriculture programs, and support the development of future NASA missions such as ECOSTRESS and NISAR.

The innovation of the agricultural soil moisture and irrigation status (a SOM is) platform is the development of operational and moderate resolution mapping and assessment of soil moisture, irrigation status (irrigated VS not), and crop water stress metrics at field scale for agricultural decision support tools. The platform focuses on utilization of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and blends SAR with harmonized landsat-8 and sentinel-2 ( HLS ) during phase 1. During phase 2 and forward, asomis is geared at planned missions including landsat-9, ecostress (ecosystem spaceborne thermal radiometer experiment on space station), and NASA-isro SAR (NISAR). This sbir is directly relevant to NASA; helps address a shortcoming of smap due to sensor failure develops a direct pipeline between NASA and USDA programs ARS / scan / ltar supports development of ecostress and NISAR missions supports new NASA programs and applied sciences priorities (eofsac, agriculture, water resources) helps bridge the GAP of within existing decision support tools with operational field scale metrics of soil moisture, irrigation status, and crop water stress builds on prior success and lineage with growing public private partnerships asomis uses operational earth observations and multi-scale fusion techniques to map soil moisture, irrigation status, and crop water stress metrics at moderate resolution (