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

You can install the latest development version from github with,

 
  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.