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Leveraging Unmanned Aerial System Remote Sensing To Inform Energy And Water Balance Models For Spatial Soil Water Content Monitoring And Irrigation Management, Mitchell S. Maguire

Department of Biological Systems Engineering: Dissertations and Theses

Irrigation has provided a means to produce more food and fiber throughout the world, converting low producing land into high yielding cropping systems in certain scenarios. The managing of irrigation has taken on various approaches as different locations have been constrained by different factors. Certain areas have significant ground and surface water available for irrigation while other areas struggle to meet irrigation demands due to limited water resources. These factors, along with the desire to increase crop water use efficiency, has provided the motivation to better understand crop water demands spatially within a field. A sub-field scale irrigation management study …