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Overview

Andrew N. French is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research primarily spans across Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with notable focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Soil Science, Ecology, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's work emphasizes several main topics including Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Irrigation Practices and Water Management, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Water Resources Management and Optimization, and Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement.

Key recent publications include:

  • Satellite-based NDVI crop coefficients and evapotranspiration with eddy covariance validation for multiple durum wheat fields in the US Southwest, 2020, Agricultural Water Management
  • Development of a Benchmark Eddy Flux Evapotranspiration Dataset for Evaluation of Satellite-Driven Evapotranspiration Models Over the CONUS, 2023, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration From the International Space Station, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Use of an ultrasonic sensor for plant height estimation in irrigated cotton, 2020, Agronomy Journal
  • Which active optical sensor vegetation index is best for nitrogen assessment in irrigated cotton?, 2020, Agronomy Journal

The frequent coauthors in Andrew N. French's research ecosystem include:

  • C. A. Sanchez
  • Mazin N. Saber
  • Ray G. Anderson
  • Douglas J. Hunsaker
  • Richard G. Allen

The scientist has published multiple works in specific journals and venues, showing an engagement with specialized audiences in their field. These venues include:

  • Irrigation Science
  • Agricultural Water Management
  • Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
  • Agronomy Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Andrew N. French's body of work integrates remote sensing technology, ecohydrological modeling, and agricultural water management techniques. Their research contributes empirical data and methodological insights used in understanding crop water use, evapotranspiration processes, and vegetation monitoring at various spatial and temporal scales.

Their scientific output reflects interdisciplinary approaches bridging environmental science, plant physiology, and soil science, aligned with pressing issues in climate control and sustainable irrigation practices.

Best Publications

  • The future of evapotranspiration: global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources.

    Joshua B. Fisher;Forrest S. Melton;Elizabeth M. Middleton;Christopher Hain;Christopher Hain

  • Estimating subpixel surface temperatures and energy fluxes from the vegetation index-radiometric temperature relationship

    William P. Kustas;John M. Norman;Martha C. Anderson;Andrew N. French

  • Field-based phenomics for plant genetics research

    Jeffrey W. White;Pedro Andrade-Sanchez;Michael A. Gore;Kevin F. Bronson

  • An intercomparison of the Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL) and the Two-Source Energy Balance (TSEB) modeling schemes

    Wim J. Timmermans;William P. Kustas;Martha C. Anderson;Andrew N. French

  • Remote sensing of surface energy fluxes at 101‐m pixel resolutions

    J. M. Norman;M. C. Anderson;W. P. Kustas;A. N. French;A. N. French

  • Development and evaluation of a field-based high- throughput phenotyping platform

    Pedro Andrade-Sanchez;Michael A. Gore;John T. Heun;Kelly R. Thorp

  • Crop Evapotranspiration

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  • ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration From the International Space Station

    Joshua B. Fisher;Brian Lee;Adam J. Purdy;Gregory H. Halverson

  • Deriving land surface temperature from Landsat 5 and 7 during SMEX02/SMACEX

    Fuqin Li;Thomas J. Jackson;William P. Kustas;Thomas J. Schmugge

  • Decreased CO2 availability and inactivation of Rubisco limit photosynthesis in cotton plants under heat and drought stress in the field

    A. Elizabete Carmo-Silva;Michael A. Gore;Pedro Andrade-Sanchez;Andrew N. French

  • Surface energy fluxes with the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection radiometer (ASTER) at the Iowa 2002 SMACEX site (USA)

    A.N. French;F. Jacob;M.C. Anderson;W.P. Kustas

  • Remote sensing of evapotranspiration over cotton using the TSEB and METRIC energy balance models

    Andrew N. French;Douglas J. Hunsaker;Kelly R. Thorp

  • Temperature and emissivity separation from multispectral thermal infrared observations

    Thomas Schmugge;Andrew French;Jerry C Ritchie;Albert Rango

  • Comparison of land surface emissivity and radiometric temperature derived from MODIS and ASTER sensors

    Frédéric Jacob;Frédéric Jacob;Franc̨ois Petitcolin;Thomas Schmugge;Éric Vermote

  • Comparative Aerial and Ground Based High Throughput Phenotyping for the Genetic Dissection of NDVI as a Proxy for Drought Adaptive Traits in Durum Wheat.

    Giuseppe E. Condorelli;Marco Maccaferri;Maria Newcomb;Pedro Andrade-Sanchez

  • Land surface temperature retrieval at high spatial and temporal resolutions over the southwestern United States

    Anand K. Inamdar;Andrew French;Simon Hook;Greg Vaughan

  • Detecting land cover change at the Jornada Experimental Range, New Mexico with ASTER emissivities

    A.N. French;T.J. Schmugge;J.C. Ritchie;A. Hsu

  • Interactive effects of nitrogen fertilization and irrigation on grain yield, canopy temperature, and nitrogen use efficiency in overhead sprinkler-irrigated durum wheat

    Jarai Mon;K.F. Bronson;D.J. Hunsaker;K.R. Thorp

  • Field-Based High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping Reveals the Temporal Patterns of Quantitative Trait Loci Associated with Stress-Responsive Traits in Cotton

    Duke Pauli;Pedro Andrade-Sanchez;A. Elizabete Carmo-Silva;Elodie Gazave

  • A paleomagnetic pole position from the folded Upper Devonian Catskill red beds, and its tectonic implications

    Rob Van der Voo;Andrew N. French;Rowland B. French

  • On the discrepancy between eddy covariance and lysimetry-based surface flux measurements under strongly advective conditions ☆

    Joseph G. Alfieri;William P. Kustas;John H. Prueger;Lawrence E. Hipps

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Schmugge
Thomas J. Schmugge New Mexico State University
William P. Kustas
William P. Kustas Agricultural Research Service
Kelly R. Thorp
Kelly R. Thorp Agricultural Research Service
Martha C. Anderson
Martha C. Anderson Agricultural Research Service
Jeffrey W. White
Jeffrey W. White University of Florida
Albert Rango
Albert Rango United States Department of Agriculture
John H. Prueger
John H. Prueger Agricultural Research Service
Christopher Hain
Christopher Hain Marshall Space Flight Center
Simon J. Hook
Simon J. Hook California Institute of Technology
Kevin F. Bronson
Kevin F. Bronson Agricultural Research Service

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