Daily 10 m irrigation advice, crop water-stress alerts and water-use tracking from thermal satellite imagery, for growers and water authorities
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IrriWatch is Hydrosat's satellite-based platform for irrigation planning, water accounting and irrigation performance evaluation, used by growers, agribusinesses, irrigation districts and water authorities. Field sensors and probes give point readings that need installation and calibration, and vegetation indices such as NDVI only show water stress once damage is visible. IrriWatch instead measures crop and soil temperature from thermal infrared satellite imagery and applies Hydrosat's SEBAL surface energy balance model to each 10 m pixel, together with visible and near-infrared bands and weather data, to estimate daily evapotranspiration, soil moisture and crop growth without field sensors. Inputs come from Hydrosat's own VanZyl-1 and VanZyl-2 thermal satellites together with publicly available thermal and multispectral satellites.
The platform has three modules:
Tracking and Performance are currently offered through a demo and a waitlist. Results are delivered through a web portal, iOS and Android apps, CSV, Excel and JSON downloads, and an OAuth2 REST API that returns field averages as JSON and pixel maps as GeoTIFF. Hydrosat reports more than 2 million hectares monitored daily in over 60 countries. In 2026 Madera County, California renewed a three-year contract for daily field-level crop water use monitoring across about 220,000 acres in support of groundwater sustainability (SGMA) compliance. Other named users include the Brabantse Delta Water Board in the Netherlands, Smart Agro Hub in Greece and Irritec Mexico. Hydrosat states that Wageningen University & Research validated IrriWatch soil moisture for potatoes in 2022.
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Hydrosat
Hydrosat operates its own thermal infrared satellites (VanZyl-1 and VanZyl-2, with the Osiris constellation in development) and sells high-resolution thermal and visible imagery through its Discovery Platform, a web portal and STAC-compliant API. Its IrriWatch platform turns satellite data into daily field-level insights for irrigation planning, water-use tracking and irrigation performance evaluation for growers, irrigation districts and water authorities.
2017
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11-50
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United States of America
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Embeds data and insights into existing systems and workflows.
