A review of remote sensing applications in agriculture for food security: Crop growth and yield, irrigation, and crop losses

L Karthikeyan, I Chawla, AK Mishra - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
The global population is expected to reach 9.8 billion by 2050. There is an exponential
growth of food production to meet the needs of the growing population. However, the limited …

[HTML][HTML] A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications–confronting product characteristics with user requirements

J Peng, C Albergel, A Balenzano, L Brocca… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil moisture observations are of broad scientific interest and practical value for a wide
range of applications. The scientific community has made significant progress in estimating …

A review of irrigation information retrievals from space and their utility for users

C Massari, S Modanesi, J Dari, A Gruber… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Irrigation represents one of the most impactful human interventions in the terrestrial water
cycle. Knowing the distribution and extent of irrigated areas as well as the amount of water …

Multi-layer high-resolution soil moisture estimation using machine learning over the United States

L Karthikeyan, AK Mishra - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The lack of proper understanding of multi-layer soil moisture (SM) profile (signals) remains a
persistent challenge in sustainable agricultural water management and food security …

Estimation of global irrigation water use by the integration of multiple satellite observations

K Zhang, X Li, D Zheng, L Zhang… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Quantification of the global irrigation water use (IWU) is crucial to understanding the
anthropogenic disturbance of the natural hydrological cycle and optimal agricultural water …

Satellite‐based monitoring of irrigation water use: Assessing measurement errors and their implications for agricultural water management policy

T Foster, T Mieno, N Brozović - Water Resources Research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Reliable accounting of agricultural water use is critical for sustainable water management.
However, the majority of agricultural water use is not monitored, with limited metering of …

Warming of hot extremes alleviated by expanding irrigation

W Thiery, AJ Visser, EM Fischer, M Hauser… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Irrigation affects climate conditions–and especially hot extremes–in various regions across
the globe. Yet how these climatic effects compare to other anthropogenic forcings is largely …

Quantification of irrigation water using remote sensing of soil moisture in a semi-arid region

E Jalilvand, M Tajrishy, SAGZ Hashemi… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Irrigated agriculture is the principal consumer of fresh water resources. Most countries do not
have a precise measurement of water consumption for irrigation. In this study, an innovative …

How much water is used for irrigation? A new approach exploiting coarse resolution satellite soil moisture products

L Brocca, A Tarpanelli, P Filippucci, W Dorigo… - International journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of irrigation is essential for ensuring food and water security, and to
cope with the scarcity of water resources, which is expected to exacerbate under the …

Global scale error assessments of soil moisture estimates from microwave-based active and passive satellites and land surface models over forest and mixed irrigated …

H Kim, JP Wigneron, S Kumar, J Dong… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the past four decades, satellite systems and land surface models have been used to
estimate global-scale surface soil moisture (SSM). However, in areas such as densely …