The previous version required a farmer to develop a water application map on a computer, upload that map to a thumb drive, and transfer it to the irrigation controller.
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Still, the implications of the Rutgers project unnerve residents of Surf City, on Long Beach Island, where the map shows water pouring over nearly all of the barrier island's six municipalities with a 6-foot increase in sea levels.
Data retrieved from HICO have been validated with data collected from samples collected on the ground and used to develop algorithms to map indicators of water quality.
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He will get a map without sewer and water systems, fire hydrants, and manholes.
Get off the map and into the Sunset Water Villa which is stilted over a quiet lagoon inlet on the Indian Ocean.
Even with the crush of snowfall the Sierra-Nevadas got this winter, enough to fill many of California's reservoirs to healthy levels, the states water woes are only getting worse ( see map).
The map below shows the cooler waters in the tropical Atlantic with anomalously warm water in the Gulf of Mexico and near the East Coast.
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Like many cities, Greenwich has created a geographic information system - a map that shows all the hidden bones and arteries of modern civilization: water mains, storm sewers, utility lines.
Using elevation data from Nasa's ICESat, cross-checked with other Nasa satellites, the team was able to map the rise and fall of the overlying ice, and hence areas where water pooled or flowed away.
We got on the interstate and started driving north without, of all things, a map of Mississippi, a resource we found was more precious than batteries and bottled water since all the panic began.
Since January 2012, UNESCO has been working in the drought-affected countries in the Horn of Africa to identify and to map groundwater resources for an aquifer that will provide at least 200, 000 cubic meters of renewable water every year.
At present, the conveyor depends on surface water sinking and travelling towards the equator, there to rise again and bring warmth back to the north (see map in the introduction).
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