The natural salt meadows of Tilopozo in the hyperarid, Atacama Desert of northern Chile, which are located at approximately 2800 m above sea level, are under pressure from industrial activity, and cultivation and grazing ...

Vegetation exerts a strong control on water balance and key hydrological variables like evapotranspiration,water yield or even the flooded area may result severely affected by vegetation changes. Particularly,transitions ...

The quantification of carbon storage in vegetation biomass is a crucial factor in the estimation and mitigation of CO2 emissions. Globally, arid and semi-arid regions are considered an important carbon sink. However, they ...

Latent heat flux equivalent to Evapotranspiration (ET) is the total amount of water lost via transpiration and evaporation from plant surfaces and the soil in an area where a crop is growing. Since 80-90% of precipitation ...

Vegetation biomass is a globally important climate-relevant terrestrial carbon pool and also drives local hydrological systems via evapotranspiration. Vegetation biomass of individual vegetation types has been ...

An Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) for the Aquarius/SAC-D mission that includes different models for forward and retrieval processes is presented. This OSSE is implemented to study the errors related to the ...

Remote sensing images are a good source of crop and soil information, which can be used to derive agronomic information for field management and yield prediction. Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) and corn (Zea mays L.) ...