Upscaling evapotranspiration data from eddy covariance using remote sensing

This project is designed under Agricultural Water Innovation in the Tropic (AgWIT) partnership, a WaterWorks project funded by NSERC. Under the AgWIT project, we have been testing alternative land and water management strategies such as biochar application and drip irrigation. Evapotranspiration (ET) monitoring through flux towers has been used for comparing water use efficiency between treatment and control plots in a farmland scale. However, some of our research sites consist of several plots which applying different water and land managements across larger area than the flux tower footprint (e.g., a sugarcane farmland in Costa Rica). In this case, the synthesis of remote sensing products with flux tower is crucial. Also, in order to understand the large-scale impacts of the agricultural activity on water resources, data fusion approach can be used to scale up from field scale to watershed scale. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Johnson

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Partner:

Technical University of Denmark

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

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