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Estimating the value of satellite-derived measurements of evapotranspiration to inform irrigation scheduling in California almond orchards
Advances in satellite remote sensing have led to the development of improved methods and tools for calculating evapotranspiration (ET), allowing for improved irrigation scheduling. Researchers have been workin...
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Open AccessAssessing the accuracy of OpenET satellite-based evapotranspiration data to support water resource and land management applications
Remotely sensed evapotranspiration (ET) data offer strong potential to support data-driven approaches for sustainable water management. However, practitioners require robust and rigorous accuracy assessments o...
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Time-series clustering of remote sensing retrievals for defining management zones in a vineyard
Management zones (MZs) are efficient for applying site-specific management in agricultural fields. This study proposes an approach for generating MZs using time-series clustering (TSC) to also enable time-spec...
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From vine to vineyard: the GRAPEX multi-scale remote sensing experiment for improving vineyard irrigation management
This second special issue of the Grape Remote sensing Atmospheric Profile and Evapotranspiration eXperiment (GRAPEX) further advances and expands upon the initial research findings of the first GRAPEX special ...
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The complementary uses of Sentinel-1A SAR and ECOSTRESS datasets to identify vineyard growth and conditions: a case study in Sonoma County, California
The launch of NASA’s ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) and the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1A/B synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites provides the opportu...
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Open AccessEvaluation of satellite Leaf Area Index in California vineyards for improving water use estimation
Remote sensing estimation of evapotranspiration (ET) directly quantifies plant water consumption and provides essential information for irrigation scheduling, which is a pressing need for California vineyards ...
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Application of the vineyard data assimilation (VIDA) system to vineyard root-zone soil moisture monitoring in the California Central Valley
Efforts to apply gridded root-zone soil moisture (RZSM) products for irrigation decision-support in vineyards are currently hampered by the difficulty of obtaining RZSM products that meet required accuracy, re...
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Impact of advection on two-source energy balance (TSEB) canopy transpiration parameterization for vineyards in the California Central Valley
Water conservation efforts for California’s agricultural industry are critical to its sustainability through severe droughts like the current one and others experienced over the last two decades. This is most ...
