1. Explain origin - exploration into relationship into climate change and agriculture
2. Pivot based on initial interviews - understanding the impact of water
3. Moving towards data-driven solution → mobile sensor payload with sampling capabilities to provide critical information
   • allows for data analytics and providing guidance based on individualized data
   • goal: low cost, high scalabilty
   • audience: small, local farmers that 1) make decisions based on qualitative data or 2) don't currently have irrigation or water efficiency implementations

• Question: What data is valuable for farmers, especially locally in Georgia?

  • Soil moisture, salinity of water, plant/soil transpiration

• Factors that you see is affected by different envirovnments (e.g. in Georgia - clay vs soil)

• Question: What decisions can farmers make with this information?

• Question: Foreseeable roadblocks in any implementation of technology in local agriculture?

Farmers

• Explain origin - exploration into relationship into climate change and agriculture

• Pivot based on initial interviews - understanding the impact of water

• Moving towards data-driven solution → mobile sensor payload with sampling capabilities to provide critical information

  • allows for data analytics and providing guidance based on individualized data
  • goal: low cost, high scalabilty
  • audience: small, local farmers that 1) make decisions based on qualitative data or 2) don't currently have irrigation or water efficiency implementations or data collection/decision-making

• Do you use irrigiation and if so what?

• What data do you collect in agriculture (especially to irrigation)

• Reception to project idea

  • soil moisture at different depths
  • plant/soil transpiration
  • weather/rainfall patterns
  • Soil types (e.g. different terrain)

• What decisions do you make off of this data

NEW QS:

1. In your research paper, you stressed the need for increasing crop yield per unit of water consumed in the field. Do you think our project would be able to help, by giving farmers better tools for making good decisions?