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The management of water resources in agricultural areas requires a precise knowledge of the evapotranspiration (ET). For this purpose, many measurement techniques are developed to quantify this variable. The eddy covariance system (EC) is the only method that can measure directly ET with high precision. However, over heterogeneous areas where the complexity is associated to the type and the cover of the vegetation canopy, to the soil moisture and to the changes in topography, a network of EC systems is needed which is costly and requires a continuous availability of well-trained staff to operate and maintain the devices. To overcome this issue, the scientific community develops other approaches based on modeling algorithms which can provide estimated values of the ET. In the present study, Shuttleworth-Wallace (SW) model was used to estimate ET over a mixed vegetation of olive trees and wheat in semi-arid climate conditions. The estimated ET shows good consistency during two years, 2017 and 2018 of study, with an RMSE of about 0.49 and 0.51 mm/day, respectively.
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This study was conducted within the International Joint Laboratory-TREMA (http://trema.ucam.ac.ma), and funded by PHC TBK/18/61, the European Commission Horizon 2020 Programme for Research and Innovation (H2020) in the context of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) action (REC project, grant agreement no: 645642) and (ACCWA project, grant agreement no: 823965). Additional funding was provided by SAGESSE and the ERANETMED03-62 CHAAMS. Jamal EL FARKH was awarded a mobility research training grant from PHC TBK/18/61.
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Elfarkh, J., Er-Raki, S., Ezzahar, J., Jarlan, L., Khabba, S., Chehbouni, A. (2020). Estimation of the Evapotranspiration over Heterogeneous Region Using Shuttleworth-Wallace Model. In: El Moussati, A., Kpalma, K., Ghaouth Belkasmi, M., Saber, M., Guégan, S. (eds) Advances in Smart Technologies Applications and Case Studies. SmartICT 2019. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 684. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53187-4_49
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