Fresh water stored by small on-farm reservoirs (SRs), which are small water bodies, is a fundamental component of surface hydrology and is critical for meeting global irrigation needs. Farmers use SRs to store water during the wet season for crop irrigation during the dry season. SRs can also contribute to downstream water stress by decreasing stream discharge and peak flow in the watersheds where they are built. There are more than 2.6 million SRs in the US alone, and many SRs were constructed during the last 40 years. Despite their importance for crop irrigation, SRs are poorly quantified bc (1) they are small (
Fresh water stored by on-farm reservoirs (OFRs) is an important component of surface hydrology and is critical for meeting global irrigation needs. Farmers use OFRs to store water during the wet season and for crop irrigation during the dry season, …
Basemap and Planet Fusion—derived from PlanetScope imagery—represent the next generation of analysis ready datasets that minimize the effects of the presence of clouds. These datasets have high spatial (3 m) and temporal (daily) resolution, which …
On-farm reservoirs (OFRs)—artificial water impoundments that retain water from rainfall and run-off—enable farmers to store water during the wet season to be used for crop irrigation during the dry season. However, monitoring the inter- and intra-annual change of these water bodies remains a challenging task because they are typically small (