Title
Performance of Sentinel-2 SAFER ET model for daily and seasonal estimation of grapevine water consumption
Date Issued
01 September 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Safre A.L.S.
Nassar A.
Aboutalebi M.
Saad J.C.C.
Manzione R.L.
de Castro Teixeira A.H.
Prueger J.H.
McKee L.G.
Alfieri J.G.
Hipps L.E.
Nieto H.
White W.A.
del Mar Alsina M.
Sanchez L.
Kustas W.P.
Dokoozlian N.
Gao F.
Anderson M.C.
Utah State University
Publisher(s)
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
Assessment of water consumption is a crucial task for irrigation management in grapevines, especially in areas with limited water resources, which is the case of California Central Valley. This study evaluated the utility of the Simple Algorithm for Evapotranspiration Retrievement (SAFER) model to estimate daily and seasonal actual evapotranspiration (ETa) using Sentinel 2 images at 10-m spatial resolution and 5-day revisit time in 3 vineyards located at two sites in California. A unique characteristic of this model is the estimation of “synthetic” temperature maps, which are used as part of the estimation of ET and energy balance. The SAFER energy balance results were validated with six eddy covariance (EC) flux towers as part of the Grape Remote-sensing Atmospheric Profile and Evapotranspiration eXperiment (GRAPEX). The estimated surface temperature derived from upwelling longwave radiation measurements was closely correlated with the observed sensor surface temperature with R2 higher than 0.86 for the analyzed EC towers. After performing an internal calibration, SAFER root mean square error (RMSE) values on daily ETa were between 0.64 and 0.75 mm day−1. Additionally, the seasonal ETa was estimated and compared with the EC observations showing an average R2 ranging from 0.64 to 0.52 mm/season. Spatial patterns of ETa showed variability between sites and producer management activities. The results found indicate both limitations and potential utility of SAFER for irrigation management in vineyards using daily or seasonal ETa under different irrigation treatments.
Start page
635
End page
654
Volume
40
Issue
May 4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Otras ciencias agrícolas
Oceanografía, Hidrología, Recursos hídricos
Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85136235204
Source
Irrigation Science
ISSN of the container
03427188
Sponsor(s)
This paper was possible thanks to the scholarship granted from the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES), in the scope of the Program CAPES-PrInt, process number 88887.467878/2019-00, International Cooperation Project number 41/2017. Authors would like to thank the staff of Viticulture, Chemistry and Enology Division of E&J Gallo Winery for the collection and processing of field data and irrigation management. Authors would also like to thank USDA-GRAPEX team for the data collection and processing of eddy covariance towers.
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus