Crop Water Requirement and Irrigation by Remote Sensing
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Use and Irrigation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 1476
Special Issue Editor
Interests: water resources manageme; remote sensing in agriculture and environment
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Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Water resources are essential to production in primary, secondary and tertiary sectors, as well as to household consumption. Throughout the years, overexploitation of water resources has led to their degradation and depletion globally.
Remote sensing for hydrological purposes is used to improve farm-level irrigation management and fight water scarcity. The possibility for monitoring irrigation demand from space is catalytic for policy makers. The increased accuracy can lead to a reduction in water for irrigation and improve water reservoir management. In addition, at the micro-economic and producers’ levels, improved irrigation management can have a positive effect on the economics of farms.
The use of remotely sensed data is very useful for the deployment of water strategies because it can offer a huge amount of information in a short time, compared to conventional methods. Besides the convenience and reduction in time, remotely sensed data lessen the costs for data acquisition, especially when the area is extended. The potential of remote sensing techniques in irrigation and water resource management has been widely acknowledged. Multispectral images from many different sensors are used to infer crop water requirements, which are the main input for water balance methods and models.
This Special Issue titled “Crop Water Requirement and Irrigation by Remote Sensing’’ has the clear purpose of providing, in a scientific way, real cases of how remote sensing techniques are used to infer crop water requirements and their application to the irrigation of different plants worldwide.
Dr. George Papadavid
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- irrigation management
- crop water requirements
- evapotranspiration
- algorithms
