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Assessing Agricultural Water Productivity in Desert Farming System of Saudi Arabia
The primary objective of this study was to assess the water productivity (WP) of the annual (wheat, barley, and corn) and biennial (alfalfa and Rhodes grass) crops cultivated under centerpivot irrigation located over desert ...
Monitoring water use in agricultural fields of Saudi Arabia
With growing population, urbanization and irrigated agriculture, water shortages are increasing in arid
regions. In 2012, freshwater consumption for the agricultural sector in Saudi Arabia was estimated at
86%. Accurate ...
CART and IDC – based classification of irrigated agricultural fields using multi-source satellite data
To understand water productivity of crops cultivated in the Eastern Province
of Saudi Arabia, this study was conducted to generate a reliable crop type
map using a multi-temporal satellite data (ASTER, Landsat-8 and MODIS) ...