Remotely Sensed Crop Temperature for Water Resources Management

摘要

The overall goal of the project was to evaluate the use of the crop temperature data as a tool in the management of water resources. The specific objectives of the study were: (1) to determine the crop temperature response of some major agronomic crops to various levels of water stresses; (2) to test methods based on crop temperature or other remotely sensed data to estimate crop water stress conditions and to evaluate the utility of these methods for their ability to estimate crop yields, severity of water stress and crop phenological development; and (3) to determine the feasibility of using crop temperature as a guide for irrigation scheduling.