Currently, the world is facing high competition and market risks in improving yield, crop illness, and crop water stress. This could potentially be addressed by technological advancements in the form of precision systems, improvements in production,...
To meet the demand for increasing global food production while using limited water resources, crop water stress must be improved in agriculture. Remote-sensing-based plant stress indicators have the benefits of high spatial resolutions, a cheap cost,...
The goal of this research is to use a WORKSWELL WIRIS AGRO R INFRARED CAMERA (WWARIC) to assess the crop water stress index (CWSIW) on tomato growth in two soil types. This normalized index (CWSI) can map water stress to prevent drought, mapping yiel...
The use of plant-based indicators and other conventional means to detect the level of water stress in crops may be challenging, due to their difficulties in automation, their arduousness, and their time-consuming nature. Non-contact and non-destructi...
Water productivity of rice is imperative for global water security. Currently, water saving management techniques have been proposed and applied to rice systems. The crop water stress index (CWSI) is a major index for evaluating crop water use. The u...
Efficiently determining crop water stress is vital for optimising irrigation practices and enhancing agricultural productivity. In this realm, the synergy of deep learning with remote sensing technologies offers a significant opportunity. This study...
The frequency of drought periods influences the yield potential of crops under field conditions. The change in morphology and anatomy of plants has been tested during drought stress under controlled conditions but the change in physiological processe...
Precise irrigation management of grapevines in greenhouses requires a reliable method to easily quantify and monitor the grapevine water status to enable effective manipulation of the water stress of the plants. This study evaluated the applicability...
With an increasing demand of fresh water resources in arid/semi-arid parts of the world, researchers and practitioners are relying more than ever on remote sensing techniques for monitoring and evaluating crop water status and for estimating crop wat...
Addressing within-field and within-season variability of crop water stress is critical for spatially variable irrigation. This study measures interactions between spatially variable soil properties and temporally variable crop water dynamics; and whe...
This study systematically reviews the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and remote sensing technologies to address the issue of crop water stress caused by rising global temperatures and climate change; in particular, it evaluates the effec...
Every year, up to 40% of the crops in the world are lost to pests. Plants have suffered from prolonged biotic stresses and abiotic stresses, which cause significant changes in complex crop ecosystems, necessitating intensive pest management strategie...
Knowledge of the spatial variability of soil hydraulic properties is important for many reasons, e.g., for soil erosion protection, or the assessment of surface and subsurface runoff. Nowadays, precision agriculture is gaining importance for which kn...
To apply AquaCrop to the study of agricultural soil moisture in the North China Plain, a water-treatment experiment on summer maize was carried out at the Fengqiu experimental station of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2017 to 2018. A water trea...
Thermal infrared (TIR) multi-/hyperspectral and sun-induced fluorescence (SIF) approaches together with classic solar-reflective (visible, near-, and shortwave infrared reflectance (VNIR)/SWIR) hyperspectral remote sensing form the latest state-of-th...
The capability to monitor water status from crops on a regular basis can enhance productivity and water use efficiency. In this paper, high-resolution thermal imagery acquired by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was used to map plant water stress and...
The accurate quantification of crop water use or evapotranspiration (ET) under water and salt stress is needed for efficient water management and precision irrigation in water scarce regions. However, few studies were examined on alfalfa water use an...
The Scholander-type pressure chamber to measure midday stem water potential (MSWP) has been widely used to schedule irrigation in commercial vineyards. However, the limited number of sites that can be evaluated using the pressure chamber makes it dif...
Timely crop water stress detection can help precision irrigation management and minimize yield loss. A two-year study was conducted on non-invasive winter wheat water stress monitoring using state-of-the-art computer vision and thermal-RGB imagery in...
The determination of crop water status has positive effects on the Chinese Brassica industry and irrigation decisions. Drought can decrease the production of Chinese Brassica, whereas over-irrigation can waste water. It is desirable to schedule irrig...
Monitoring and mapping crop water stress and variability at a farm scale for cereals such as maize, one of the most common crops in developing countries with 200 million people around the world, is an important objective within precision agriculture....
Understanding the anticipated impact of climate change on agriculture, as well as water conservation, is critical to achieving food security. Therefore, during this critical time and due to reduced water resources and increased food demand, it is imp...
This study investigated water stress in eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) grown under field conditions in Bafra, Türkiye, from 2015 to 2017. Five irrigation treatments were evaluated with three replicates: full irrigation (I1), 75% (I2), 50% (I3),...
Efficient irrigation management requires complementary information on atmospheric demand, soil conditions, and crop water stress. This study presents a low-power Internet of Things (IoT)-based irrigation system that integrates these components within...
Water stress caused by water scarcity has a negative impact on the wine industry. Several strategies have been implemented for optimizing water application in vineyards. In this regard, midday stem water potential (SWP) and thermal infrared (TIR) ima...
In the past few decades, combinations of remote sensing technologies with ground-based methods have become available for use at the level of irrigated fields. These approaches allow an evaluation of crop water stress dynamics and irrigation water use...
Agricultural drought poses a critical constraint to food security and regional sustainable development, particularly in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain, a major grain-producing region characterized by high spatial heterogeneity in drought risk. Previous stu...
The crop water stress index (CWSI), based on canopy temperature (Tc), has been widely used in evaluating plant water status and planning irrigation scheduling, but whether CWSI can diagnose the stress status of crops and predict the physiological tra...
This review evaluates the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in detecting and managing water stress in specialty crops through thermal, multispectral, and hyperspectral imaging. Based on 104 scholarly articles from 2012 to 2024, the review highli...
The application of remotely sensed estimates of canopy minus air temperature (Tc-Ta) for detecting crop water stress can be limited in semi-arid regions, because of the lack of full ground cover (GC) at water-critical crop stages. Thus, soil backgrou...
Climatic changes have caused seasonal drought to occur frequently in tea fields of low-mountain and hill regions over the past decades. This leads to huge losses in the quality and yields of famous tea, which restricts the economic development of the...
Wheat and rice are two main staple food crops that may suffer from yield losses due to drought episodes that are increasingly impacted by climate change, in addition to new epidemic outbreaks. Sustainable intensification of production will rely on se...
Malt barley is a crucial irrigated crop in the semi-arid Western United States, where the states of Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah account for 92% of the irrigated production acreage and 30% of total U.S. production. In this region, spring malt b...
Viticultural practices and irrigation have a major impact on fruit development and yield, and ultimately on must quality. The effects of water deficit (WD), defoliation (Def), and crop-thinning (CT) on Solaris plants and fruit development, as well as...
Incorporating data-driven technologies into agriculture presents a promising approach to optimizing crop production, especially in regions dependent on irrigation, where escalating heat waves and droughts driven by climate change pose increasing chal...
Novel technologies for estimating crop water needs include mainly remote sensing evapotranspiration estimates and decision support systems (DSS) for irrigation scheduling. This work provides several examples of these approaches, that have been adjust...
Since the 1980s, thermal imagery has been used to assess crop water stress. The increase in the temporal resolution of optical satellite sensors (in the range of 400–2500 nm) and the better spatial resolution compared to the thermal imagery cal...
Canopy temperature has been proposed as a relevant variable for crop water stress monitoring. Since crop temperature is highly influenced by the prevailing climatic conditions, it is usually normalized with indices such as the crop water stress index...
Biostimulants can be used in many crops growing under water deficit conditions at the seedling stage. This study used tomato, Solanum lycopersicum L., seedlings growing in commercial 150-cell trays as an experimental setup to reproduce mild drought s...
Reliable assessment of crop water stress is essential for improving irrigation efficiency for upland crop and orchard fruit production. Thermal sensing combined with the crop water stress index (CWSI) provides a non-destructive approach for character...
An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of water stress on yield and various physiological parameters, including the crop water stress index for tomatoes in the Central Anatolian region of Turkey. For this purpose, the irrigation schedule...
Water scarcity in arid regions increases the need for technologies to improve water productivity. The integrated effects of plastic film mulching and water stress on grain maize under conventional and alternate furrow irrigation methods are still poo...
The Crop Water Stress Index (CWSI) is a useful tool for evaluating irrigation scheduling and achieving water conservation and crop yield goals. This study examined the CWSI under different water stress conditions for the scheduling of wheat crop irri...
Saudi Arabia faces water scarcity and inadequate sustainable sources, particularly in agriculture, necessitating efficient irrigation water management to improve productivity amidst rising demand. The study investigated the impact of irrigation level...
The temperature-based crop water stress index (CWSI) is the most robust metric among precise techniques that assess the severity of crop water stress, particularly in susceptible crops like maize. This study used a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to re...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of different water levels on yield, morphological, and quality parameters, as well as the crop water stress index (CWSI), for pepper plants under a high tunnel greenhouse in a semi-arid region....
Researchers are depending more than ever on remote sensing techniques to monitor and assess the agricultural water status, as well as to estimate crop water usage or crop actual evapotranspiration. In the current work, normal and stressed baselines f...
A field experiment was conducted with soybean to observe evapotranspiration (ET) and crop water stress index (CWSI) with three watering levels at Keszthely, Hungary, during the growing seasons 2017–2020. The three different watering levels were...
Precision irrigation of wine grape is hindered by the lack of an automated method for monitoring vine water status. The objectives of this study were to: Validate an automated model for remote calculation of a daily crop water stress index (CWSI) for...
Water is not always accessible for agriculture due to its scarcity. In order to successfully develop irrigation strategies that optimize water productivity characterization of the plant, the water status is necessary. We assessed the suitability of t...
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