End Users / Partners: E&J Gallo Winery, National Grape & Wine Initiative, Almond Board of California.
Project Description: The proposed project will refine and apply a multi-scale remote sensing toolkit for mapping crop water use and crop stress for improved irrigation scheduling and water management in vineyards in the Central Valley of California managed by E&J Gallo. This toolkit will be available to other wineries and orchard growers for improving water management and irrigation scheduling.
Data sources, model, technologies: We are combining Earth observations from GOES, VIIRS, MODIS, and Landsat satellites together with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in energy balance modeling systems utilizing land surface temperature. Model results are being validated with biophysical, soil moisture, and micrometeorological measurement of fluxes from leaf to canopy to whole vineyard blocks at selected experimental vineyards.