Eddy covariance estimates of evapotranspiration in irrigated and rainfed soybean in Uruguay: abstract.

Estimating total crop water use and the associated variability are critical for planning, for the design of supplementary irrigation strategies and for subsequent management. Tough there have been great advances in estimating actual evapotranspiration, achieving accurate estimates at the field level is still a challenge. The characterization of site specific characteristics influencing evapotranspiration like soil properties impose a great challenge to the use of modeling, and the accurate characterization of the variability within a field of crop status may bias estimates.