Water Demand Maps

Common uses

• Visualizing variable conditions across large operations

• Optimizing use of limited water resources to protect yields

• Improving uniformity

• Adjusting irrigation schedules to respond to crops’ changing needs

How it works

When water is scarce, costly, or both, farm profits depend on irrigating only as much as necessary to protect yields. But for many busy growers, identifying where and how water needs vary across a large operation can depend on guesswork—estimating with generic crop coefficients that may not match real-world conditions in the field.

Now, Water Demand Maps provide a powerful alternative. Ceres Imaging assesses variability in your crop canopy to generate Kc values specific to your fields, then maps these custom values to your existing irrigation zones. The result: an intuitive and highly customizable tool to guide irrigation scheduling and strategy.

Customized for your farm

Ceres Imaging delivers Water Demand Maps customized to your operation: see variability in each field’s water demand mapped by acre, or to your existing irrigation zones. Instead of generic crop coefficients, you’ll get Kc values calculated from aerial assessments of your crop’s canopy cover.

Water Demand Maps are available for tree nuts, grapes, and citrus crops.