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A new technology, using sensors on satellites, could help to establish standards for the amount of water that farmers need to irrigate their crops, and help to optimize the use of that water, an increasingly scarce resource. Calculations are made to take into account the minimum and maximum temperatures of an area, the amount of available solar energy, and maps of the Normalized Difference Vegetation index, and the surface albedo. [Source: New York Times]
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