irrigation

Irrigated crop maps for a better water management in agriculture

=>In a previous post, i have briefly presented: To classify irrigated farmland, within the growing period and at the scale of a territory, we focused on the use of optical remote sensing images. In the lines below, I will introduce the work to generate maps of irrigated crops usin Landsat-8 time series level 2A made […]

06.10.2016

An overview of irrigation evolution in Central Asia with Landsat

In Central Asia former soviet republics, pre-independence water allocation and irrigation system infrastructure were well maintained and operated with massive funding from the central government of the Former Soviet Union. Since independence, the situation has changed dramatically politically, institutionally and technically. Political transition from a planned to a market economy has introduced ‘new’ concepts such […]

04.10.2016

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