Airborne thermal imagery to detect the seasonal evolution of crop water status in peach, nectarine and Saturn peach orchards

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Bellvert, Joaquim ^a,b   Marsal, Jordi ^a   Girona, Joan ^a   Gonzalez Dugo, Victoria ^c   Fereres, Elías ^c   Ustin, Susan L ^b   Zarco Tejada, Pablo J ^c  

^a IRTA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE AGRICULTURA SOSTENIBLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

CWSI; Leaf water potential; Peach; Remote sensing; Temperature; Water status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957879164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8010039     Document Type: Article

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