Hydrosat: Daily, field-scale, global evapotranspiration from space

Science and applications communities have made clear the needs and requirements for daily, field-scale evapotranspiration. But, no single existing or planned mission has yet to meet these requirements, largely due to cost. Hydrosat has innovated through this barrier enabling a constellation of 16+ TIR and VNIR satellites that achieves global < 50 m measurements every day, multiple times per day. These data will be a game-changer and will significantly advance our monitoring and management capabilities of agriculture, aquaculture, ecology, hydrology, wildfire, urban heat, biodiversity, volcanology, geothermal exploration, vector-borne diseases, defense, cryosphere, and carbon cycling. The first launch is in just a few months following this AMS meeting.

Here, we give an update on Hydrosat status and work done by early adopters from academia to government on the Hydrosat early adopter 20 m daily surface temperature product; these data are distributed for free by Hydrosat for non-commercial uses. We also describe an overview of the hundreds of commercial use cases primarily in agriculture using our cutting-edge IrriWatch platform. In sum, Hydrosat reveals previously unseen planetary truths.