Airborne remote sensing for detection of irrigation canal leakage

Irrigation and Drainage

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 524-534

  Huang, Yanbo ^a   Fipps, Guy ^b   Maas, Stephan J ^c   Fletcher, Reginald S ^d  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Texas A and M University   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KIKA DE LA GARZA SUBTROPICAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne remote sensing; Canal leakage; Field reconnaissance; Irrigation distribution network; Multispectral imaging; Normalized difference vegetation index; Thermal imagery; Water leak detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649622372     PISSN: 15310353     EISSN: 15310361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ird.511     Document Type: Article

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