Advancements in earth observation for water resources monitoring and management in Africa: a comprehensive review

T Dube, D Seaton, C Shoko, C Mbow - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper provides an overview of the progress made in remote sensing of water resources
in Africa, focusing on various applications such as precipitation estimation, land surface …

[HTML][HTML] Prospects of improving agricultural and water productivity through unmanned aerial vehicles

L Nhamo, J Magidi, A Nyamugama, AD Clulow… - Agriculture, 2020 - mdpi.com
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an alternative to costly and time-consuming
traditional methods to improve agricultural water management and crop productivity through …

Stand-alone uncertainty characterization of GLEAM, GLDAS and MOD16 evapotranspiration products using an extended triple collocation approach

MS Khan, UW Liaqat, J Baik, M Choi - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2018 - Elsevier
An optimal use of the global scale actual evapotranspiration (AET) products for various
hydro-meteorological applications requires a systematic characterization of their …

High-resolution crop yield and water productivity dataset generated using random forest and remote sensing

M Cheng, X Jiao, L Shi, J Penuelas, L Kumar, C Nie… - Scientific data, 2022 - nature.com
Accurate and high-resolution crop yield and crop water productivity (CWP) datasets are
required to understand and predict spatiotemporal variation in agricultural production …

[HTML][HTML] Potential of satellite and reanalysis evaporation datasets for hydrological modelling under various model calibration strategies

M Dembélé, N Ceperley, SJ Zwart, E Salvadore… - Advances in Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
Twelve actual evaporation datasets are evaluated for their ability to improve the
performance of the fully distributed mesoscale Hydrologic Model (mHM). The datasets …

Multi-site calibration and validation of SWAT with satellite-based evapotranspiration in a data-sparse catchment in southwestern Nigeria

AE Odusanya, B Mehdi, C Schürz… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2019 - hess.copernicus.org
The main objective of this study was to calibrate and validate the eco-hydrological model
Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) with satellite-based actual evapotranspiration …

Evaluation of variable-infiltration capacity model and MODIS-terra satellite-derived grid-scale evapotranspiration estimates in a River Basin with Tropical Monsoon …

A Srivastava, B Sahoo, NS Raghuwanshi… - Journal of Irrigation and …, 2017 - ascelibrary.org
With the limited availability of meteorological variables in many remote areas, estimation of
evapotranspiration (ET) at different spatiotemporal scales for efficient irrigation water …

Remote sensing of land use-land cover change and climate variability on hydrological processes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Key scientific strides and challenges

T Govender, T Dube, C Shoko - Geocarto International, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The impact of land use land cover (LULC) change and climate variability on water resources
poses as a major threat in semi-arid environments, especially in the sub-Saharan Africa …

High uncertainty of evapotranspiration products under extreme climatic conditions

L Qian, Z Zhang, L Wu, S Fan, X Yu, X Liu, Y Ba… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Terrestrial Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important process for understanding regional or
global water, energy, and carbon cycles, and with the development of satellite observations …

Hydrologic impacts of climate change: Comparisons between hydrological parameter uncertainty and climate model uncertainty

J Joseph, S Ghosh, A Pathak, AK Sahai - Journal of Hydrology, 2018 - Elsevier
Assessing impacts of climate change on hydrology involves global scale climate projections
by General Circulation Models (GCMs), downscaling of global scale projections to regional …