December 2021
This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to use the SWAN Systems platform, an automated water balance model, alongside remote sensing data to calculate crop coefficients throughout the irrigation season to assist with irrigation scheduling. All text in this article is licensed for re-use under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
Source: Application of remote sensing in spatial irrigation scheduling. Cindy Lowe and Andrew Curtis (Water Strategies), Kelvin Hicks (farmer) and Hamish Brown (Plant & Food Research). RPF report, June 2021. https://ourlandandwater.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/OurLandandWater_FinalReport_23062021.pdf