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 21-year dataset (2000–2020) of gap-free global daily surface soil moisture at 1-km grid resolution

C Zheng, L Jia, T Zhao - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Global soil moisture estimates from current satellite missions are suffering from inherent
discontinuous observations and coarse spatial resolution, which limit applications especially …

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 …

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 …

Estimating net irrigation across the North China Plain through dual modeling of evapotranspiration

J Koch, W Zhang, G Martinsen, X He… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Irrigation is the greatest human interference with the terrestrial water cycle. Detailed
knowledge on irrigation is required to better manage water resources and to increase 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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] No pixel left behind: Toward integrating Earth Observations for agriculture into the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals framework

AK Whitcraft, I Becker-Reshef, CO Justice… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Remotely sensed Earth observations (EO) have their history firmly rooted in agricultural
monitoring, and more recently with applications in food production, food security, and …

[HTML][HTML] Regional data sets of high-resolution (1 and 6 km) irrigation estimates from space

J Dari, L Brocca, S Modanesi, C Massari… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
Irrigation water use represents the primary source of freshwater consumption by humans.
The amount of water withdrawals for agricultural purposes is expected to further increase in …