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UMR EMMAH : Modelling Agricultural and hydrological systems in the mediterranean environment

The research carried out by the EMMAH joint research (UMR) unit focuses on understanding and modelling the functioning of agrosystems in interaction with underground hydrosystems. This leads the EMMAH UMR to consider the aquifer-soil-plant-atmosphere system on different time and space scales. In order to understand and model how this system works, it is necessary to take into account the many interactions between the dynamics of the plant cover, the physical, chemical and biological processes in the soil, interactions with the atmosphere and hydrosystems, and the way in which agrosystems are managed. In particular, the work carried out aims to characterise mass flows between the atmosphere, the plant cover, the soil and the underground aquifer, and the processes involved in plant production in relation to environmental factors, at different spatial scales (from a millimetre to a kilometre) and temporal scales (from a second to several decades). In this way, the EMMAH joint research unit is helping to assess the sustainability of underground water resources and cropping systems in the dual context of global change and agro-ecological transition. The Mediterranean remains a key area of study, a region marked by rapid climate change and high water stress linked to the adaptation of cropping systems and strong demographic pressure.

 

Three most recent HAL EMMAH publications

  • [hal-05131852] Satellite canopy water content from Sentinel-2, Landsat-8 and MODIS: Principle, algorithm and assessment

    Hongliang Ma, Marie Weiss, Daria Malik, Beatrice Berthelot, Marta Yebra, Rachael H Nolan, Arnaud Mialon, Jiangyuan Zeng, Xingwen Quan, Håkan Torbern Tagesson, Albert Olioso, Frederic Baret

    26 Jun 2025

    https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-05131852v1
  • [hal-05126456] Registration of close-range, multi-lens multispectral imagery by retrieving the scene 3D structure

    Sylvain Jay, Frédéric Baret, Samuel Thomas, Marie Weiss

    23 Jun 2025

    https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-05126456v1
  • [hal-05126207] Wheat crop models underestimate drought stress in semi-arid and Mediterranean environments

    H. Webber, D. Cooke, C. Wang, S. Asseng, Pierre Martre, F. Ewert, B. Kimball, G. Hoogenboom, S. Evett, André Chanzy, Sebastien Garrigues, Albert Olioso, K.S. Copeland, J.L. Steiner, D. Cammarano, Y. Chen, M. Crépeau, E. Diamantopoulos, R. Ferrise, Loic Manceau, T. Gaiser, Y. Gao, S. Gayler, J.R. Guarin, T. Hunt, G. Jégo, G. Padovan, E. Pattey, Dominique Ripoche, A. Rodríguez, M. Ruiz-Ramos, V. Shelia, A.K. Srivastava, I. Supit, F. Tao, K. Thorp, M. Viswanathan, T. Weber, J. White

    23 Jun 2025

    https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-05126207v1