Special Issue "Remote Sensing in Agricultural Hydrology and Water Resources Modeling"
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 15466
Special Issue Editors
Interests: agricultural hydrology and water resources; arid region hydrology and water resources; remote sensing hydrology
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Interests: water resources engineering; resilient infrastructure systems; smart cities
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Agricultural water use covers about 70% of total water use in the world, most of which is used for irrigation. However, many parts of the world, especially arid and semiarid regions, suffer from shortage of irrigation water, which has negative impact on crop growth and food security in regional, national, and global scales. Studies on agricultural hydrology and water management provide the basis for the highly efficient use of precipitation and irrigation water.
In recent years, remote sensing (RS)-based models have provided efficient tools for agricultural hydrology and water resources modeling in irrigation districts, including soil moisture and salinity retrieval, evapotranspiration estimation, agro-hydrological modeling, irrigation efficiency and crop water productivity assessments, optimal allocation of irrigation water, and impact of irrigation practices on ecosystems and environment. However, agricultural hydrology and water resources modeling in irrigation district scale is still challenging, due to the complex interactions among hydrological processes, agricultural water management, and crop planting pattern and growth.
This Special Issue is inviting manuscripts on the following topics:
- RS-based retrieval methods for soil moisture and salinity;
- RS-based crop evapotranspiration modeling;
- RS-based agro-hydrological modeling in irrigation district scale;
- RS-based assessments of irrigation efficiency and crop water productivity;
- RS-based optimization of irrigation water and crop planting pattern;
- RS-based impact assessment of irrigation practices on ecosystems and environment;
- Other topics related to RS-based agricultural hydrology and water resources modeling.
Dr. Songhao Shang
Dr. Jingfeng Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- soil moisture
- soil salinity
- evapotranspiration
- agro-hydrological model
- irrigation efficiency
- crop water productivity
- irrigation water management
- impact of irrigation practices on ecosystems and environment