COSMOS-India

Managing Water Well

Soil moisture real‑time field monitoring across India | Helping to improve livelihoods for farmers | Towards sustainable water resource management

Soil moisture status is critical for farming and the production of crops, as well as for recharge of groundwater and weather prediction. COSMOS‑India delivers real-time soil moisture observations from permanent in situ field monitoring stations using large area (field scale average) soil moisture sensors. The objectives of this work are to:

For further information on the measurement technology and soil moisture science see the COSMOS-UK website.

This work is funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council’s Official Development Assistance through the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology's SUNRISE programme, and contributed to, and in partnership with the Indian organisations listed below:

Partners

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Website

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Website

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Website

Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune

Website

National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee

Website

University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad

Website

For more information about COSMOS-India please contact the Project Office.