Remote Sensing of Agricultural Water Resources
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soil moisture; agricultural drought; thermal remote sensing; evapotranspiration; irrigation
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Interests: remote sensing; soil moisture; ecohydrology; precision agriculture; uncertainty quantification
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As we know, agriculture is the foundation of a sustainable economy, and water is the core for agriculture. With the aggravation of global climate change and population increase, agricultural water resources have been suffering increasing risk, especially in developing countries. Various studies have highlighted the increment of agricultural water consumption in future.
In recent decades, the development of advanced observation instruments and high spatial resolution satellite data allows for the obtaining of essential variables for describing water cycle at farmland scale, which has provided an unprecedented opportunity to monitor agricultural water resources. It is the right time to summarize accomplishments and provide guidance for future research directions in this field, and especially to promote new methods in the monitoring of agricultural water resources.
This Special Issue on “Remote Sensing of Agricultural Water Resources” seeks contributions reflecting the current innovative research progress in this field. The topics can range from the ground-based experiments/satellite retrievals for obtaining essential variables (e.g., soil moisture, evapotranspiration, and precipitation) for agricultural water resources at farmland/regional scale, detection of irrigation events or agricultural droughts based on these aforementioned variables, as well as the assessment of agricultural water resources in future climate scenarios. Specifically, research articles and review papers are warmly welcomed in this special issue.
Dr. Pei Leng
Dr. Chunfeng Ma
Dr. Jianwei Ma
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- agricultural water resources (soil moisture/evapotranspiration/precipitation…)
- crop water consumption
- water use efficiency
- detection of irrigation events
- agricultural drought
- crop monitoring and vegetation parameters retrieval
- remote sensing experiments
- thermal/SAR remote sensing
