MODIS estimates of annual evapotranspiration of irrigated crops in the Nile delta based on the FAO method: Application to the Nile river budget
Simonneaux, V.; Saleh, S. M.; Hassanein, M. K.; Ayman Abou-Hadid; Chehbouni, A.; Abdrabbo, M.A.A.; F.A. Hashem; M.A. Abul-Soud;
Abstract
Egypt is experiencing a water crisis because all resources are used and the Nile is not able to provide for the increasing needs especially for irrigation. In order to better manage the available resources, an accurate quantitative assessment of water fluxes, and especially evapotranspiration, is needed to improve the management of irrigation water. We show here how MODIS low resolution satellite images (250m) were used, jointly with climatic data interpolated from stations, to compute the annual irrigation consumption of the Nile delta based on the FAO-56 method. The results are used to estimate of the Water budget of Egypt and give insights about irrigation efficiency. © 2010 Copyright SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.
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| Title | MODIS estimates of annual evapotranspiration of irrigated crops in the Nile delta based on the FAO method: Application to the Nile river budget | Authors | Simonneaux, V.; Saleh, S. M.; Hassanein, M. K.; Ayman Abou-Hadid ; Chehbouni, A.; Abdrabbo, M.A.A.; F.A. Hashem; M.A. Abul-Soud | Keywords | Egypt | Evapotranspiration | Irrigation | MODIS | Nile | Remote sensing | Water budget | Issue Date | 9-Dec-2010 | Journal | Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering | ISBN | [9780819483416] | ISSN | 0277786X | DOI | 10.1117/12.865066 | Scopus ID | 2-s2.0-78649729942 |
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