Water is a precious and valuable, however increasingly limited resource due to several factors such as climate change, human interventions as well as close-to overconsumption having adverse impacts on the environment.
In Italy, water availability is a pressing issue since most of the country is under extremely high water-stress. For this reason, Centrale Valutativa has developed the decision-support application TETHYS that makes use of Sentinel-2 data to monitor the health status of fields and grasslands. Based on the analyses, greenkeepers of golf courses, a major water consumer, can focus their attention to parts of the golf course that need their attention most as well as employ precision irrigation, saving time as well as both water and energy.
This more efficient use of precious resources benefits the environment by taking away pressure from an already water-stressed region and saves considerable cost for the golf course operator.