Part of the COtL Mesonet network in Wynarka. Source: Twitter/COTl Mesonet
Conditions Over the Landscape (COtL) is a local agricultural technology company that establishes and manages high-quality public weather station networks in agricultural regions.
These weather station networks – also known as ‘Mesonets’ – provide reliable data in real-time for a range of metrics including temperature, rainfall, frost, fire danger and spray drift hazard alerts.
Now the COtL team has used the latest in machine learning to not only accurately predict in real-time the occurrence of hazardous inversion conditions for spraying but also for a future two-hour window.
Damon Grace, general manager of the COtL Mesonet said inversion exists when the air near the ground is colder than higher air off the ground which means the droplets from the pesticides don’t settle and can therefore drift to other crops, into waterways or onto native vegetation.
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