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Overview

Joseph G. Alfieri is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with specific attention to subfields such as global and planetary change, plant science, soil science, ecology, and environmental engineering.

The main topics of Alfieri's work include plant water relations and carbon dynamics, horticultural and viticultural research, irrigation practices and water management, remote sensing in agriculture, hydrology and watershed management studies, urban heat island mitigation, and solar radiation and photovoltaics.

Frequent coauthors contributing to Alfieri's publications include William P. Kustas, John H. Prueger, María Mar Alsina, L. McKee, and Lawrence E. Hipps.

Alfieri has published extensively in various academic venues. The major publication venues featuring their work are:

  • Irrigation Science
  • Remote Sensing
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • HydroShare Resources
  • Remote Sensing of Environment

Some of Alfieri's recent papers are:

  • Interoperability of ECOSTRESS and Landsat for mapping evapotranspiration time series at sub-field scales, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Data assimilation of high-resolution thermal and radar remote sensing retrievals for soil moisture monitoring in a drip-irrigated vineyard, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Using high-spatiotemporal thermal satellite ET retrievals to monitor water use over California vineyards of different climate, vine variety and trellis design, 2020, Agricultural Water Management
  • Direct partitioning of eddy-covariance water and carbon dioxide fluxes into ground and plant components, 2022, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Soil Moisture-Evapotranspiration Overcoupling and L-Band Brightness Temperature Assimilation: Sources and Forecast Implications, 2020, Journal of Hydrometeorology

Best Publications

  • Toward mapping crop progress at field scales through fusion of Landsat and MODIS imagery

    Feng Gao;Martha C. Anderson;Xiaoyang Zhang;Zhengwei Yang

  • Description and Evaluation of the Characteristics of the NCAR High-Resolution Land Data Assimilation System

    Fei Chen;Kevin W. Manning;Margaret A. LeMone;Stanley B. Trier

  • Monitoring daily evapotranspiration over two California vineyards using Landsat 8 in a multi-sensor data fusion approach

    Kathryn A. Semmens;Martha C. Anderson;William P. Kustas;Feng Gao

  • Daily Mapping of 30 m LAI and NDVI for Grape Yield Prediction in California Vineyards

    Liang Sun;Feng Gao;Martha C. Anderson;William P. Kustas

  • Mapping daily evapotranspiration at Landsat spatial scales during the BEAREX’08 field campaign

    Martha C. Anderson;William P. Kustas;Joseph G. Alfieri;Feng Gao

  • Evapotranspiration estimates derived using thermal-based satellite remote sensing and data fusion for irrigation management in California vineyards

    Kyle R. Knipper;William P. Kustas;Martha C. Anderson;Joseph G. Alfieri

  • Interoperability of ECOSTRESS and Landsat for mapping evapotranspiration time series at sub-field scales

    Martha C. Anderson;Yang Yang;Jie Xue;Kyle R. Knipper

  • Evaluation of TSEB turbulent fluxes using different methods for the retrieval of soil and canopy component temperatures from UAV thermal and multispectral imagery

    Héctor Nieto;William P. Kustas;Alfonso F. Torres-Rúa;Joseph G. Alfieri

  • THE GRAPE REMOTE SENSING ATMOSPHERIC PROFILE AND EVAPOTRANSPIRATION EXPERIMENT.

    William P. Kustas;Martha C. Anderson;Joseph G. Alfieri;Kyle Knipper

  • Influence of Land Cover and Soil Moisture on the Horizontal Distribution of Sensible and Latent Heat Fluxes in Southeast Kansas during IHOP_2002 and CASES-97

    Margaret A. LeMone;Fei Chen;Joseph G. Alfieri;Mukul Tewari

  • 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

  • Evaporative loss from irrigated interrows in a highly advective semi-arid agricultural area☆

    Nurit Agam;Steven R. Evett;Judy A. Tolk;William P. Kustas

  • Mapping evapotranspiration with high-resolution aircraft imagery over vineyards using one- and two-source modeling schemes

    Ting Xia;Ting Xia;William P. Kustas;Martha C. Anderson;Joseph G. Alfieri

  • Field-scale mapping of evaporative stress indicators of crop yield: An application over Mead, NE, USA

    Yang Yang;Martha C. Anderson;Feng Gao;Brian D. Wardlow

  • Evaluation of the Noah Land Surface Model Using Data from a Fair-Weather IHOP_2002 Day with Heterogeneous Surface Fluxes

    Margaret A. LeMone;Mukul Tewari;Fei Chen;Joseph G. Alfieri

  • Revisiting the paper “Using radiometric surface temperature for surface energy flux estimation in Mediterranean drylands from a two-source perspective”

    William P. Kustas;Hector Nieto;Laura Morillas;Martha C. Anderson

  • Evaluating the two-source energy balance model using local thermal and surface flux observations in a strongly advective irrigated agricultural area

    William P. Kustas;Joseph G. Alfieri;Martha C. Anderson;Paul D. Colaizzi

  • Soil water content estimation using a remote sensing based hybrid evapotranspiration modeling approach

    Christopher M.U. Neale;Hatim M.E. Geli;William P. Kustas;Joseph G. Alfieri

  • Estimation of the Minimum Canopy Resistance for Croplands and Grasslands Using Data from the 2002 International H2O Project

    Joseph G. Alfieri;Dev Niyogi;Peter D. Blanken;Fei Chen

  • Data Assimilation of High-Resolution Thermal and Radar Remote Sensing Retrievals for Soil Moisture Monitoring in a Drip-Irrigated Vineyard.

    Fangni Lei;Fangni Lei;Wade T. Crow;William P. Kustas;Jianzhi Dong

  • Utility of the two-source energy balance (TSEB) model in vine and interrow flux partitioning over the growing season

    W. P. Kustas;J. G. Alfieri;H. Nieto;T. G. Wilson

Frequent Co-Authors

William P. Kustas
William P. Kustas Agricultural Research Service
John H. Prueger
John H. Prueger Agricultural Research Service
Martha C. Anderson
Martha C. Anderson Agricultural Research Service
Lawrence E. Hipps
Lawrence E. Hipps Utah State University
Héctor Nieto
Héctor Nieto Spanish National Research Council
Christopher Hain
Christopher Hain Marshall Space Flight Center
Andrew J. McElrone
Andrew J. McElrone United States Department of Agriculture
Steven R. Evett
Steven R. Evett Agricultural Research Service
Dev Niyogi
Dev Niyogi The University of Texas at Austin
Terry A. Howell
Terry A. Howell Agricultural Research Service

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