Kibbutz Sde Yoav is an agricultural settlement located in south-central Israel, between the cities of Ashkelon, Kyriat Gat, and Kyriat Malakhi. Like Sde Yoav, in Israel, there are several agricultural settlements that were created during the establishment of the state of Israel in order to ensure the food supply. In order to monitor the fields that sustain these settlements, farmers need chemical/physical analyses. However, traditional soil survey methods are expensive, time-consuming, and need high skilled professionals. Moreover, in order to represent these parameters spatially in these large agricultural fields, it is necessary to take several samples for a correct kriging methodology, and the measurements in question varies seasonally. Additionally, farmers cannot see the status of every point of interest in these fields with a common frequency. Given the lack of rains and the dry climate of the region, water is a critical resource that is necessary to manage carefully. Remote sensing is a potential solution for this problem, because it can replace field chemical/physical measurements, and could monitor the infiltration rate in the fields of interest in a spatial scale.
