Assessing landscape scale heterogeneity in irrigation water use with remote sensing and in situ monitoring

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2019, Pages

  Foster, T ^a   Goncalves I Z ^b   Campos, I ^c   Neale, C M U ^b   Brozovic N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c Instituto de Desarrollo Regional   (Spain)

Author keywords

agriculture; irrigation; monitoring; remote sensing; water

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; IRRIGATION; MONITORING; WATER; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; CONSERVATION PRACTICES; FRESH WATER RESOURCES; IRRIGATION REQUIREMENTS; IRRIGATION WATER REQUIREMENTS; IRRIGATION WATER USE; REMOTE SENSING MODELS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

REMOTE SENSING;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; FUTURE PROSPECT; HETEROGENEITY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; REMOTE SENSING; WATER PLANNING; WATER SUPPLY; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

NEBRASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85064124257     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaf2be     Document Type: Article

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