Remote Sensing for Water Productivity Assessments in Agriculture, Ecosystems and Water Resources

Dear Colleagues,

The difficulties of large-scale energy and water balance measurements by punctual measurements have prompted the use of geotechnologies to evaluate these components in mixed agroecosystems.

This Special Issue highlights the use of remote sensing at different spatial and temporal resolutions, together with agrometeorological data for water productivity assessments involving the use of water resources in natural vegetation and irrigated/rainfed agriculture inside hydrological basins with land-use changes.

Regarding irrigated agriculture, research should involve results for rational irrigation managements, while for rainfed agriculture, enphasis should be given to maximizing yield through the use of the rainfall water, both approaching the state-of-the-art as well as the operationalization of algorithms.

Reaserch may involve methods for acquirements of evapotranspiration, biomass production and water productivity, as well as other agrometeorological indicators, aiming to produce food, profits, rural development, and ecological benefits, with low social and environmental costs per unit of water applied and/or consumed.

The advances of large-scale modeling, uncertainties, calibrations, and algorithm validations may be included and discussed, aiming at improvements of energy and water balance computations under diferrent climate and land-use scenarios.

Prof. Antônio Heriberto de Castro Teixeira
Dr. Fernando Braz Tangerino Hernandez
Dr. Janice Freitas Leivas
Dr. André Quintão de Almeida
Dr. Edson Patto Pacheco
Guest Editors

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