(1) Department of Biological and Irrigation Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA;(2) ARS-USDA, Northwest Irrigation & Soils Research Laboratory, Kimberly, Idaho 83341, USA
Abstract:
This paper offers a historical retrospective on the remote sensing of crop coefficients for obtaining actual crop evapotranspiration. We present the canopy reflectance-based approach of crop coefficients and show the usefulness of high-resolution airborne imagery as a tool for monitoring the actual crop growth changes and characterizing in-field variability in an objective manner.