*2.5. Canopy Temperature Calculation*

The temperature of all extracted orchard canopy pixels was retrieved, and a histogram was built for each method. Descriptive statistics were calculated for the histograms, including mean, median, standard deviation, minimum, and maximum. The canopy temperature of each MC was estimated using two methods: the average of 100% of canopy pixels (T100%), and the average of the coolest 33% of canopy pixels (T33%). The calculations used the raster [34], rgdal [35], and reshape2 [36] packages in R [37], and the canopy temperature graphs were constructed using the ggplot2 package in R [38].
