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Salah Er-Raki is affiliated with Cadi Ayyad University in Morocco and has contributed extensively to the fields of environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research primarily focuses on issues related to plant water relations, irrigation practices, soil moisture, and the impacts of climate change on agriculture.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Irrigation Practices and Water Management
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Their research spans important subfields such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Soil Science
  • Plant Science
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Atmospheric Science

Salah Er-Raki has published in several scientific venues including:

  • Agricultural Water Management
  • Acta Horticulturae
  • Remote Sensing
  • European Scientific Journal ESJ
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Selected recent publications by Salah Er-Raki include:

  • "Cereal Yield Forecasting with Satellite Drought-Based Indices, Weather Data and Regional Climate Indices Using Machine Learning in Morocco," 2021, Remote Sensing
  • "Irrigation retrieval from Landsat optical/thermal data integrated into a crop water balance model: A case study over winter wheat fields in a semi-arid region," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Performance of the HYDRUS-1D model for water balance components assessment of irrigated winter wheat under different water managements in semi-arid region of Morocco," 2020, Agricultural Water Management
  • "Linkages between Rainfed Cereal Production and Agricultural Drought through Remote Sensing Indices and a Land Data Assimilation System: A Case Study in Morocco," 2020, Remote Sensing
  • "Assessing Irrigation Water Use with Remote Sensing-Based Soil Water Balance at an Irrigation Scheme Level in a Semi-Arid Region of Morocco," 2021, Remote Sensing

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Saïd Khabba
  • Abdelghani Chehbouni
  • Jamal Ezzahar
  • Lionel Jarlan
  • Abdelhakim Amazirh

Best Publications

  • Evapotranspiration components determined by stable isotope, sap flow and eddy covariance techniques

    D.G. Williams;W. Cable;K. Hultine;J.C.B. Hoedjes

  • Monitoring wheat phenology and irrigation in Central Morocco: On the use of relationships between evapotranspiration, crops coefficients, leaf area index and remotely-sensed vegetation indices

    B. Duchemin;R. Hadria;S. Erraki;G. Boulet

  • Combining FAO-56 model and ground-based remote sensing to estimate water consumptions of wheat crops in a semi-arid region

    S. Er-Raki;A. Chehbouni;N. Guemouria;B. Duchemin

  • The use of high-resolution image time series for crop classification and evapotranspiration estimate over an irrigated area in central Morocco

    V. Simonneaux;B. Duchemin;D. Helson;S. Er-Raki

  • Performance assessment of AquaCrop model for estimating evapotranspiration, soil water content and grain yield of winter wheat in Tensift Al Haouz (Morocco): Application to irrigation management

    J. Toumi;S. Er-Raki;J. Ezzahar;S. Khabba

  • Retrieving surface soil moisture at high spatio-temporal resolution from a synergy between Sentinel-1 radar and Landsat thermal data: A study case over bare soil

    Abdelhakim Amazirh;Olivier Merlin;Salah Er-Raki;Qi Gao

  • An integrated modelling and remote sensing approach for hydrological study in arid and semi-arid regions: the SUDMED Programme

    A. Chehbouni;R. Escadafal;B. Duchemin;G. Boulet

  • Assessment of reference evapotranspiration methods in semi-arid regions: can weather forecast data be used as alternate of ground meteorological parameters?

    S. Er-Raki;A. Chehbouni;S. Khabba;V. Simonneaux

  • Using the dual approach of FAO-56 for partitioning ET into soil and plant components for olive orchards in a semi-arid region.

    S. Er-Raki;A. Chehbouni;G. Boulet;D. G. Williams

  • Intercomparison of four remote-sensing-based energy balance methods to retrieve surface evapotranspiration and water stress of irrigated fields in semi-arid climate.

    J. Chirouze;G. Boulet;L. Jarlan;R. Fieuzal

  • Remote Sensing of Water Resources in Semi-Arid Mediterranean Areas: the joint international laboratory TREMA

    L. Jarlan;S. Khabba;S. Er-Raki;M. Le Page

  • Combining Satellite Remote Sensing Data with the FAO-56 Dual Approach for Water Use Mapping In Irrigated Wheat Fields of a Semi-Arid Region

    Salah Er-Raki;Abdelghani G. Chehbouni;Benoît Duchemin

  • Water use efficiency and yield of winter wheat under different irrigation regimes in a semi-arid region

    Mohamed Hakim Kharrou;Salah Er-Raki;Ahmed Chehbouni;Benoit Duchemin

  • Assessing the impact of global climate changes on irrigated wheat yields and water requirements in a semi-arid environment of Morocco

    Elhoussaine Bouras;Lionel Jarlan;Said Khabba;Salah Er-Raki

  • Improvement of FAO-56 method for olive orchards through sequential assimilation of thermal infrared-based estimates of ET

    S. Er-Raki;A. Chehbouni;J.C.B. Hoedjes;J. Ezzahar

  • Performance Metrics for Soil Moisture Downscaling Methods: Application to DISPATCH Data in Central Morocco

    Olivier Merlin;Yoann Malbéteau;Youness Notfi;Stefan Bacon

  • The use of the scintillation technique for monitoring seasonal water consumption of olive orchards in a semi-arid region

    J. Ezzahar;A. Chehbouni;J.C.B. Hoedjes;S. Er-Raki

  • Evaluation of Backscattering Models and Support Vector Machine for the Retrieval of Bare Soil Moisture from Sentinel-1 Data

    Jamal Ezzahar;Nadia Ouaadi;Mehrez Zribi;Jamal Elfarkh

  • Determination of crop evapotranspiration of table grapes in a semi-arid region of Northwest Mexico using multi-spectral vegetation index

    S. Er-Raki;J.C. Rodriguez;J. Garatuza-Payan;C.J. Watts

  • Citrus orchard evapotranspiration: Comparison between eddy covariance measurements and the FAO-56 approach estimates

    S. Er-Raki;Abdelghani Chehbouni;N. Guemouria;J. Ezzahar

  • Partitioning evapotranspiration of a drip-irrigated wheat crop: Inter-comparing eddy covariance-, sap flow-, lysimeter- and FAO-based methods

    Zoubair Rafi;Olivier Merlin;Valérie Le Dantec;Saïd Khabba

  • Combining stable isotopes, Eddy Covariance system and meteorological measurements for partitioning evapotranspiration, of winter wheat, into soil evaporation and plant transpiration in a semi-arid region

    G. Aouade;J. Ezzahar;N. Amenzou;S. Er-Raki

Frequent Co-Authors

Said Khabba
Said Khabba Cadi Ayyad University
Olivier Merlin
Olivier Merlin Paul Sabatier University
Lionel Jarlan
Lionel Jarlan Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
A.G. Chehbouni
A.G. Chehbouni Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Gilles Boulet
Gilles Boulet Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Albert Olioso
Albert Olioso INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Mehrez Zribi
Mehrez Zribi Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Yann Kerr
Yann Kerr Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
David G. Williams
David G. Williams University of Wyoming
Olivier Hagolle
Olivier Hagolle Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales

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