Root zone soil moisture Estimates at the daily and agricultural parcel scales for Crop irrigation management and water use impact – a multi-sensor remote sensing approach

Project Information

REC

Grant agreement ID: 645642

DOI 10.3030/645642

Project closed

EC signature date 19 November 2014

Start date 1 March 2015

End date 28 February 2019

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 895 500,00

EU contribution € 895 500,00

Coordinated by

ISARDSAT SL
Spain

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Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (6)

webinars and short videos

Webinars and short-videos explaining the benefits of using the REC products and related services to improve on-farm irrigation management and reduce the water use impact.

Articles and presentations

Articles publicated in peer reviewed international journals and conferences.

Web Page

Conception, creation and delivery of the project web page. This page will be updated every 6 months with the documents and project results.

International Final WS

Preparation and delivery of an international final Workshop targeting European decision-makers, agriculture and water managers and scientists.

'mass' media releases

This deliverable concerns the General EU community project dissemination. It englobes: multimedia releases, e-newsletters and articles in nonscientific newspapers.

Project Open Days

A series of workshops/seminars have been scheduled across all the project duration. They will consist of a public and a consortium only dedicated part. The purpose of these networking activities is multiple. The first aim is to guarantee knowledge transfer by presenting the state of art and advancement of the tasks already developed and to receive feedback from scientific users and stakeholders. The tentative date and place for the 3 POD is: POD1 Aigües Segarra-Garrigues/Demonstrative farms M13 POD2 Cadi Ayyad University- Marrakech M19 POD3 Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique of Toulouse M37

Documents, reports (3)

Water Use Assessment

Document describing water footprint calculations at the demonstration sites.

State of Art

The actual deliverable responsible is UCAM and not isardSAT. Due to IT bug it was not possible to attribute the correct leadership to the third country partner as per submitted proposal. Document outlining a detailed state-of-art review with the review and external assessment from Experts Board. The state of art review will concern the scientific progress and possible synergies between passive microwave disaggregation and active microwave data to obtain a high resolution near surface soil moisture (NSSM) product, the feasibility of root zone soil moisture (RZSM) estimation from remote sensing only and the requirements, the capabilities and the limitations of the land surface model to be developed and the requirements, the capabilities and the limitations of the irrigation management system to be developed.

Ecosystem Services Assessment

Document describing the analysis of water quantity and quality assessment.

Other (2)

Initial User Workshop

Preparation and delivery of an initial user workshop to ensure that we actually aim at the products and services that users need.

Training Material

Material related to training Activities. Presentations from project Mini-workshops.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (20)

Toward a Surface Soil Moisture Product at High Spatiotemporal Resolution: Temporally Interpolated, Spatially Disaggregated SMOS Data

Author(s): Y. Malbéteau, O. Merlin, G. Balsamo, S. Er-Raki, S. Khabba, J. P. Walker, L. Jarlan
Published in: Journal of Hydrometeorology, Issue 19/1, 2018, Page(s) 183-200, ISSN 1525-755X
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1175/jhm-d-16-0280.1

Modified Penman–Monteith equation for monitoring evapotranspiration of wheat crop: Relationship between the surface resistance and remotely sensed stress index

Author(s): Abdelhakim Amazirh, Salah Er-Raki, Abdelghani Chehbouni, Vincent Rivalland, Alhousseine Diarra, Said Khabba, Jamal Ezzahar, Olivier Merlin
Published in: Biosystems Engineering, Issue 164, 2017, Page(s) 68-84, ISSN 1537-5110
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2017.09.015

Performance of the two-source energy budget (TSEB) model for the monitoring of evapotranspiration over irrigated annual crops in North Africa

Author(s): A. Diarra, L. Jarlan, S. Er-Raki, M. Le Page, G. Aouade, A. Tavernier, G. Boulet, J. Ezzahar, O. Merlin, S. Khabba
Published in: Agricultural Water Management, Issue 193, 2017, Page(s) 71-88, ISSN 0378-3774
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2017.08.007

Evaluation and analysis of deep percolation losses of drip irrigated citrus crops under non-saline and saline conditions in a semi-arid area

Author(s): Houda Nassah, Salah Er-Raki, Said Khabba, Younes Fakir, Fatima Raibi, Olivier Merlin, Bernard Mougenot
Published in: Biosystems Engineering, Issue 165, 2018, Page(s) 10-24, ISSN 1537-5110
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2017.10.017

Calibrating an evapotranspiration model using radiometric surface temperature, vegetation cover fraction and near-surface soil moisture data

Author(s): Bouchra Ait Hssaine, Olivier Merlin, Zoubair Rafi, Jamal Ezzahar, Lionel Jarlan, Saïd Khabba, Salah Er-Raki
Published in: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Issue 256-257, 2018, Page(s) 104-115, ISSN 0168-1923
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.02.033

A simple and alternative approach based on reference evapotranspiration and leaf area index for estimating tree transpiration in semi-arid regions

Author(s): A. Ayyoub, S. Er-Raki, S. Khabba, O. Merlin, J. Ezzahar, J.C. Rodriguez, A. Bahlaoui, A. Chehbouni
Published in: Agricultural Water Management, Issue 188, 2017, Page(s) 61-68, ISSN 0378-3774
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2017.04.005

Modeling soil evaporation efficiency in a range of soil and atmospheric conditions using a meta-analysis approach

Author(s): O. Merlin, V. G. Stefan, A. Amazirh, A. Chanzy, E. Ceschia, S. Er-Raki, P. Gentine, T. Tallec, J. Ezzahar, S. Bircher, J. Beringer, S. Khabba
Published in: Water Resources Research, Issue 52/5, 2016, Page(s) 3663-3684, ISSN 0043-1397
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1002/2015wr018233

Comparison of remote sensing and simulated soil moisture datasets in Mediterranean landscapes

Author(s): Maria Jose Escorihuela, Pere Quintana-Seguí
Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment, Issue 180, 2016, Page(s) 99-114, ISSN 0034-4257
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.046

Synergetic Use of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data for Soil Moisture Mapping at 100 m Resolution

Author(s): Qi Gao, Mehrez Zribi, Maria Escorihuela, Nicolas Baghdadi
Published in: Sensors, Issue 17/9, 2017, Page(s) 1966, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s17091966

Disaggregation of SMOS Soil Moisture to 100 m Resolution Using MODIS Optical/Thermal and Sentinel-1 Radar Data: Evaluation over a Bare Soil Site in Morocco

Author(s): Omar Ali Eweys, Maria José Escorihuela, Josep M. Villar, Salah Er-Raki, Abdelhakim Amazirh, Luis Olivera, Lionel Jarlan, Saïd Khabba, Olivier Merlin
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 9/11, 2017, Page(s) 1155, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs9111155

A review of spatial downscaling of satellite remotely sensed soil moisture

Author(s): Jian Peng, Alexander Loew, Olivier Merlin, Niko E. C. Verhoest
Published in: Reviews of Geophysics, Issue 55/2, 2017, Page(s) 341-366, ISSN 8755-1209
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1002/2016rg000543

Normalizing land surface temperature data for elevation and illumination effects in mountainous areas: A case study using ASTER data over a steep-sided valley in Morocco

Author(s): Y. Malbéteau, O. Merlin, S. Gascoin, J.P. Gastellu, C. Mattar, L. Olivera-Guerra, S. Khabba, L. Jarlan
Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment, Issue 189, 2017, Page(s) 25-39, ISSN 0034-4257
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.11.010

Combining a Two Source Energy Balance Model Driven by MODIS and MSG-SEVIRI Products with an Aggregation Approach to Estimate Turbulent Fluxes over Sparse and Heterogeneous Vegetation in Sahel Region (Niger)

Author(s): Bouchra Hssaine, Jamal Ezzahar, Lionel Jarlan, Olivier Merlin, Said Khabba, Aurore Brut, Salah Er-Raki, Jamal Elfarkh, Bernard Cappelaere, Ghani Chehbouni
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 10/6, 2018, Page(s) 974, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs10060974

Estimating the water budget components of irrigated crops: Combining the FAO-56 dual crop coefficient with surface temperature and vegetation index data

Author(s): Luis Olivera-Guerra, Olivier Merlin, Salah Er-Raki, Saïd Khabba, Maria Jose Escorihuela
Published in: Agricultural Water Management, Issue 208, 2018, Page(s) 120-131, ISSN 0378-3774
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2018.06.014

The value of satellite remote sensing soil moisture data and the DISPATCH algorithm in irrigation fields

Author(s): Mireia Fontanet, Daniel Fernàndez-Garcia, Francesc Ferrer
Published in: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Issue 22/11, 2018, Page(s) 5889-5900, ISSN 1607-7938
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/hess-22-5889-2018

Irrigation Mapping Using Sentinel-1 Time Series at Field Scale

Author(s): Qi Gao, Mehrez Zribi, Maria Escorihuela, Nicolas Baghdadi, Pere Segui
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 10/9, 2018, Page(s) 1495, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs10091495

Partitioning evapotranspiration of a drip-irrigated wheat crop: Inter-comparing eddy covariance-, sap flow-, lysimeter- and FAO-based methods

Author(s): Zoubair Rafi, Olivier Merlin, Valérie Le Dantec, Saïd Khabba, Patrick Mordelet, Salah Er-Raki, Abdelhakim Amazirh, Luis Olivera-Guerra, Bouchra Ait Hssaine, Vincent Simonneaux, Jamal Ezzahar, Francesc Ferrer
Published in: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Issue 265, 2019, Page(s) 310-326, ISSN 0168-1923
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.11.031

Retrieving surface soil moisture at high spatio-temporal resolution from a synergy between Sentinel-1 radar and Landsat thermal data: A study case over bare soil

Author(s): Abdelhakim Amazirh, Olivier Merlin, Salah Er-Raki, Qi Gao, Vincent Rivalland, Yoann Malbeteau, Said Khabba, Maria José Escorihuela
Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment, Issue 211, 2018, Page(s) 321-337, ISSN 0034-4257
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.04.013

A phenomenological model of soil evaporative efficiency using surface soil moisture and temperature data

Author(s): Olivier Merlin, Luis Olivera-Guerra, Bouchra Aït Hssaine, Abdelhakim Amazirh, Zoubair Rafi, Jamal Ezzahar, Pierre Gentine, Said Khabba, Simon Gascoin, Salah Er-Raki
Published in: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Issue 256-257, 2018, Page(s) 501-515, ISSN 0168-1923
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.04.010

Including Sentinel-1 radar data to improve the disaggregation of MODIS land surface temperature data

Author(s): Abdelhakim Amazirh, Olivier Merlin, Salah Er-Raki
Published in: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Issue 150, 2019, Page(s) 11-26, ISSN 0924-2716
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2019.02.004