As evaporation of water is an energy-demanding process, increasing evapotranspiration
rates decrease the surface temperature (Ts) of leaves and plants. Based on this principle …

Decreased water uptake closes stomates, which reduces transpiration and increases leaf
temperature. The leaf or canopy temperature has long been used to make an empirical …

Variations of the crop water stress index (CWSI) have been used to characterize plant water
stress and schedule irrigations. Usually, this thermal-based stress index has been …

For the semiarid Sahelian region, climate variability is one of the most important risks of food
insecurity. Field experimentations as well as crop modeling are helpful tools for the …

Infrared thermal imaging cameras are effective tools to monitor the spatial distribution of
canopy temperature (T c), which is the basis of the crop water stress index (CWSI) …

Many agricultural studies rely on infrared sensors for remote measurement of surface
temperatures for crop status monitoring and estimating sensible and latent heat fluxes …

A series of field and plant growth chamber experiments were conducted in 2006 and 2007 to
study how relative humidity (RH), genotypes and nitrogen application rates affect organ …

The objectives of this study were to characterize wireless sensor nodes that we developed in
terms of power consumption and functionality, and compare the performance of mesh and …

To further analyze the accuracy and applicability of empirical (CWSI_E) and theoretical
(CWSI_T) crop water stress index calculation methods, study was conducted at the USDA …

This book covers topics on the basic models, assessments, and techniques to calculate
evapotranspiration (ET) for practical applications in agriculture, forestry, and urban science …