Surface Energy Balance and Crop Coefficient Estimation with R

This R package computes and integrates surface energy balance into FAO56 crop water balance model

Specifically, the package can perform the following functions:

• Single crop cofficient modelling
• Dual crop cofficient modelling
• the integration of thermal-based Evaporative Fractions in a water balance model
• The computation of Two Source Surface Energy Balance (TSEB) model such as such as TSEB-PT, TSEB-PM and TSEB-Parallel
• The computation of One Source Surface Energy Balance (OSEB) models such as SEBAL, METRIC, SEBI, SSEB and SEBS

Installation

 
  if (!require(devtools)) {
  install.packages("devtools")
  }

if (packageVersion("devtools") < 1.6) {
  install.packages("devtools")
  }
  if(!require(sp)){
  install.packages("sp")
}
if(!require(rgdal)){
  install.packages("rgdal")
}
if(!require(raster)){
  install.packages("raster")
}
if(!require(gstat)){
  install.packages("gstat")
}
if(!require(httr)){
  install.packages("httr")
  }
if(!require(sebkc)){
devtools::install_github("gowusu/sebkc")
  }

Author: George Owusu owusugeorge@ug.edu.gh This is part of the author’s PhD program.