Completed Projects
› Seeds for Recovery: The Long-Term Impacts of a Complex Agricultural Intervention on Welfare, Behaviour and Stability in Syria
2020-2023 | Funded by CEDIL – Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning
› ITSET: Integrating Time Series ET Mapping into Operational Irrigation Management Framework
2018-2021 | Funded by IHE-Delft
The project aims at fusing information from multiple remote sensing missions covering a range of spatial and temporal resolutions. It synthesizes information and produces water use data approximating the required level of detail. The ultimate goal in this project is to map daily water use, daily vegetation indices, and eventually yield and water productivity in the context of a field-scale agricultural monitoring system for improved water management.
› MusLI: Characterizing Field-Scale Water Use, Phenology and Productivity in Agricultural Landscapes using Multi-Sensor Data Fusion
2018-2021 | Funded by NASA-USDA
High spatiotemporal resolution remote sensing products for monitoring crop development and water usage over global agricultural landscapes will significantly benefit efforts to meet increasing water and food demands. Because no single satellite platform currently provides the spatial, temporal, and spectral coverage required to generate these products, space-borne assets must be combined to provide actionable information at field scales.
This project aims to prototype methods for routine production of high spatiotemporal resolution evapotranspiration (ET), vegetation index (VI) and derived phenology and yield products using a multi-sensor data fusion approach. This approach fuses moderate resolution, near-daily retrievals of ET and surface reflectance (SR) from low-resolution sensors thermal sensors with periodic finer scale thermal spectral data from medium and high-resolution sensors. Validation will be conducted using ground-based observations of ET, phenology and yield over highly managed agricultural systems in Lebanon, the U.S., Brazil, and Czech Republic.