Infrared thermometry to estimate crop water stress index and water use of irrigated maize in northeastern colorado

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3619-3637

  Taghvaeian, Saleh ^a   Chávez, José L ^a   Hansen, Neil C ^b  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop water stress index; Evapotranspiration; Maize; Northeastern colorado

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; CROP WATER STRESS INDICES; CROP WATER USE; DEFICIT IRRIGATION; ENERGY BALANCE MODELS; FRESH WATER RESOURCES; GROWING SEASON; INFRARED THERMOMETRY; IRRIGATION DEPTH; MAIZE; NORTHEASTERN COLORADO; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; SEMI-ARID REGION; TWO PARAMETER; VOLUMETRIC WATER CONTENT; WATER STATUS; WATER USE; WEATHER PARAMETERS;

ARID REGIONS; ESTIMATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; REMOTE SENSING; THERMOMETERS; TRANSPIRATION; WATER SUPPLY;

CROPS;

EID: 84870852251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4113619     Document Type: Article

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