Farmers using irrigation systems will soon be able to receive some help from space.

And this is thanks to the launched cosmic thermal radiometer ECOSTRESS - connected to the International Space Station operating in orbit.

The tasks of the device are to monitor the response of plants to drought; monitoring throughout the day of water use by plants and determining the possibility of reducing the vulnerability of plants to drought due to this monitoring.

Using temperature data from ECOSTRESS, specialists will be able to determine the total amount of water that evaporates from the surface of the Earth and plants. Such information is especially valuable for farmers who can more accurately calculate the time and amount of irrigation. Satellite information is also more likely to inform you of future droughts and weather changes.

In the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the National Aerospace Agency of the USA (NASA), the ECOSTRESS project has a separate office connecting social users with aerospace data in order to use them to help farmers and other people to make better decisions.