Application of a remote sensing method for estimating monthly blue water evapotranspiration in irrigated agriculture

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 10033-10050

  Romaguera, Mireia ^a,b   Krol, Maarten S ^a   Salama, Mhd Suhyb ^b   Su, Zhongbo ^b   Hoekstra, Arjen Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Actual evapotranspiration; Blue water; Drought; Irrigation; Water resources management

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER; IRRIGATION; REMOTE SENSING; WATER; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; BLUE WATER; IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE; IRRIGATION PRACTICES; LAND SURFACE MODELLING; STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE; TEMPORAL SIGNATURES; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

SURFACE WATERS;

EID: 84905250078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61010033     Document Type: Article

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