In modern agriculture, accurate and effective measurements of soil water content lays foundation for promotion on precision irrigation technology and improvement on water use efficiency. The research reviewed soil moisture indices at home and abroad and classified the indices into two categories in order to make prediction on soil moisture and take measures. Specifically, single indices included precipitation index, soil moisture index, and crop drought index and overall indices included supply/demand water index of crops, overall water index, PDSI, crop water shortage index. Soil moisture index was analyzed in terms of advantages and disadvantages,as well as adaptability in agriculture, providing references for relieving and predicting adverse effects on agriculture and formulating scientific policies.
With the development of Internet of things, cloud computing, mobile Inter- net, the scale of the data shows an alarming growth trend. Agricultural information is an important part of modern agricultural construction, and the development of a- gricultural industry is becoming more and more deeply with the application of infor- mation technology. This paper reviewed the concept and characteristic of big data, development history of big data at home and abroad, and emphatically expounded the connotation of agricultural big data, development status of agricultural big data at home and abroad, as well as the applications of agricultural big data technology, agriculture big data resources and agricultural big data in various fields.
