Annual variability of water productivity components in the watershed of Cabeceira Comprida stream, Santa Fé do Sul,  Brazil

Daniel N. Coaguila; Fernando B. T. Hernandez; Antônio H. de C. Teixeira; Christopher M. Neale; Renato A. M. Franco; Janice F. Leivas

doi:10.1117/12.2242007

25 October 2016 Annual variability of water productivity components in the watershed of Cabeceira Comprida stream, Santa Fé do Sul, Brazil

Daniel N. Coaguila, Fernando B. T. Hernandez, Antônio H. de C. Teixeira, Christopher M. Neale, Renato A. M. Franco, Janice F. Leivas

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Proceedings Volume 9998, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XVIII; 99981E (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2242007
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

The Cabeceira Comprida stream's watershed, located in Santa Fé do Sul, Brazil, is an agroecosystem with great demand of water for the population and agriculture. During the dry season the water demand exceeds the amount generated by the watershed. It is important to know the dynamics of the water above the ground to improve the water resources management. Ten Landsat 8 images were used combined with Northwestern São Paulo State Weather Network data under different thermohydrological conditions of the year 2014 to quantify actual evapotranspiration (ETa), biomass production (BIO) and water productivity (WP) based on ETa. Using the Simple Algorithm for Retrieving evapotranspiration (SAFER) for calculating ETa, the Monteith's radiation model was applied for estimating the BIO and for calculation of WP the ratio of BIO and ETa. The average pixels for ETa, BIO and WP ranged respectively from 0.38 ± 0.35 to 2.05 ± 0.76 mm day^-1; 10.15 ± 12.19 to 71.61 ± 35.54 kg ha^-1 day^-1; 1.89 ± 0.76 to 3.88 ± 0.86 kg m^-3. The lower values of ETa (0.38 mm day^-1; DOY 220), BIO (10.15 kg ha^-1 day^-1; DOY 220) and WP (1.89 kg m^-3; DOY 204) were obtained in winter, and highest values of ETa (2.05 mm day^-1; DOY 364) and BIO (71.64 kg ha^-1 day^-1; DOY 364) in the summer and WP (3.88 kg m^-3; DOY 92) in the autumn. The water productivity components can subsidize the monitoring of the agro-ecosystems, being a useful tool to quantify the annual variability of ETa and BIO.

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Daniel N. Coaguila, Fernando B. T. Hernandez, Antônio H. de C. Teixeira, Christopher M. Neale, Renato A. M. Franco, and Janice F. Leivas "Annual variability of water productivity components in the watershed of Cabeceira Comprida stream, Santa Fé do Sul, Brazil", Proc. SPIE 9998, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XVIII, 99981E (25 October 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2242007

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