Applicability and limitations of using the crop water stress index as an indicator of water deficits in citrus orchards

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 198-199, Issue , 2014, Pages 94-104

  Gonzalez Dugo, V ^a   Zarco Tejada, P J ^a   Fereres, E ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE AGRICULTURA SOSTENIBLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

CWSI; Deficit irrigation; Irrigation scheduling; Thermal imagery; UAV

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AIRBORNE SENSING; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOINDICATOR; DROUGHT STRESS; EVERGREEN TREE; IRRIGATION; RESOLUTION; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER USE; CANOPY; FRUIT; GROWTH RATE; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; ORCHARD; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

CITRUS;

EID: 84906699671     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.08.003     Document Type: Article

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