Daily evapotranspiration estimates from application of
Shuttleworth-Wallace model with Sentinel-2 surface reflectance data over
California vineyards
Abstract
Efficient use of available water resources is key to sustainable
viticulture management in California (CA) and other regions with limited
water availability in the western US and abroad. This requires remote
and frequent field-scale information on vineyard water status. Though
the Sentinel-2 sensors offer good spatial (10-60m) and temporal
(~5 days) coverages, their utility in monitoring
vineyard evapotranspiration (ET) has not been considered viable
primarily due to the lack of a thermal band. However, recently, a new
spectral-based Shuttleworth Wallace (SW) ET model, which uses a
contextual framework to determine dry and wet extremes from the
Sentinel-2 (SW-S2) surface reflectance data, has shown promise when
tested over a single GRAPEX (Grape Remote-sensing Atmospheric Profile
and Evapotranspiration eXperiment) site in CA. However, current
knowledge on its applicability across a climate gradient in CA with
different topography, soils, trellis design and vine variety is lacking.
Moreover, how the selection of modeling domain and meteorological
forcing data influence model output is limited. Consequently, this
presentation expands the evaluation of the SW-S2 model across multiple
domains and meteorological inputs covering all three GRAPEX vineyard
sites spanning a north to south climate gradient over three recent
growing seasons (2018-2020). In comparison with flux tower observations,
the size of the modeling domain and the source and quality of
meteorological forcing data on the performance of the SW-S2 model as
well as application to the three different vineyard study sites will be
presented. Future research on merging output from more-frequent spectral
and less-frequent thermal-based ET models to reduce latency in ET
monitoring of California vineyards will also be discussed.