Presentation title
Building an app to monitor urban landscape water need
Abstract
A large portion of residential water usage in the U.S. is for landscape irrigation, but oftentimes more water is used than is actually needed. This presentation will discuss how we are using aerial imagery and weather station data to estimate required irrigation needs for urban parcels, which is then compared to actual water usage obtained from water providers. This provides a measure of how effectively the water is being used, and customers can be given feedback to help improve watering habits.
Presenter and organization
Chris Garrard
Utah State University
Contact info
5275 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-5275
435-797-2602
chris.garrard@usu.edu
Biography
Programmer/Analyst for the Remote Sensing/GIS lab in Utah State University's Quinney College of Natural Resources. Also the author of Geoprocessing with Python, which focuses on open source software.
