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Application of Landsat to Evaluate Effects of Irrigation Forbearance

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Title Application of Landsat to Evaluate Effects of Irrigation Forbearance
Names Cuenca, Richard H. (creator)
Ciotti, Shannon P. (creator)
Hagimoto, Yutaka (creator)
Date Issued 2013-08-02 (iso8601)
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Abstract Thirty-meter resolution Landsat data were used to evaluate the effects of
irrigation management in the Wood River Valley, Upper Klamath Basin, Oregon. In an
effort to reduce water use and leave more of the water resource in-stream, 4,674 ha of
previously flood irrigated pasture was managed as dryland pasture. Ground-based
measurements over one irrigated and one unirrigated pasture site were used to monitor the
difference in evapotranspiration (ET) using the Bowen ratio-energy balance method. These
data sets represent point measurements of the response to irrigation, but do not allow for
the spatial integration of effects of irrigated versus unirrigated land treatment. Four Landsat
scenes of the Wood River Valley during the 2004 growing season were evaluated
using reconstructed METRIC algorithms. Comparisons of ET algorithm output with
ground-based data for all components of the energy balance, including net radiation, soil
heat flux, sensible heat flux and evapotranspiration, were made for the four scenes. The
excellent net radiation estimates, along with reasonable estimates of the other components,
are demonstrated along with the capability to integrate results to the basin scale.
Genre Article
Access Condition http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
Topic Evapotranspiration
Identifier Cuenca, R. H., Ciotti, S. P., & Hagimoto, Y. (2013). Application of Landsat to evaluate effects of irrigation forbearance. Remote Sensing, 5(8), 3776-3802. doi:10.3390/rs5083776

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