The sustainability of irrigated agriculture is threatening due to adverse climate change, given
future projections that every one in four people on Earth might be suffering from extreme …

CONTEXT With the warming trend and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events,
accurate crop yield estimation is becoming urgent. Crop yield estimation mainly consists of …

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based hyperspectral remote sensing is an important
monitoring technology for the soil moisture content (SMC) of agroecological systems in arid …

Data assimilation plays a dual role in advancing the “scientific” understanding and serving
as an “engineering tool” for the Earth system sciences. Land data assimilation (LDA) has …

Due to its relation to the Earth's climate and weather and phenomena like drought, flooding,
or landslides, knowledge of the soil moisture content is valuable to many scientific and …

Soil surface moisture content (SMC) is one of the most critical and fundamental indicators of
crop drought because water is vital for vegetation growth. In recent decades, satellite high …

Highlights The progress made in agricultural irrigation scheduling in the past ten years and
the current challenges are discussed. The main scientific scheduling strategies are based …

Estimating accurate surface soil moisture (SM) dynamics from space, and knowing the error
characteristics of these estimates, is of great importance for the application of satellite-based …

Most of the water used for the development of the main socio-economic activities in Central-
Western Argentina (CWA), an arid to semi-arid region, home to most of the Argentinean wine …

Parameter calibration is normally required prior to crop model simulation, which can be a
time-consuming and data-intensive task. Meanwhile, the growth stages of different …