SME FAQ
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Frequently Asked Questions for the Soil Moisture Estimator
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- 1 I am a county extension agent. How can I use the SME to help the farmers in my county?
- 2 I am a irrigation specialist at a large farm. How can I use the SME ?
- 3 I am an agricultural professor. How can I participate?
- 4 I am an agricultural student without programming skills. How can I participate?
- 5 I am an agricultural student with programming skills. How can I participate?
- 6 I do not see a sector defined that I am interested in. Can I generate data for that sector?
- 7 How do I setup the input files for the SME tool?
- 8 Can I download the input and output files from an SME run?
- 9 Where can I find crop coefficients?
I am a county extension agent. How can I use the SME to help the farmers in my county?
I am a irrigation specialist at a large farm. How can I use the SME ?
I am an agricultural professor. How can I participate?
Here are some ways to participate:
- show your students the website tools and indicate that source code is available for review and improvements.
- incorporate the tools into classroom lectures/exercises/labs for critique. We would appreciate feedback on usage.
- suggest projects/studies to students regarding comparison with data (soil moisture, ETo, ETc, precipitation, etc.) from research stations currently covered geographically.
- generate WRF data for areas of interest (sectors).
We currently cover only half of the western US and invite data contributions from third parties. We have released a Docker file package for container implementation of the data generation, whereby necessary code is automatically downloaded and bundled for use. All software is free. This requires a Docker friendly platform, with multi-core CPU, and of course somebody to maintain it (eg. check that data gets delivered, etc.). We have tested the container on a Linux platform, but not on Macs or Windows yet. The computer does not need to be dedicated to generate the data, as only ~4hrs is used per sector per day. A graduate student with Linux navigability, or local IT Linux administrator, would be appropriate to maintain it.
