ARI REVIEW FOR 2016-2017

despite the fact that some climatic factors have changed. Applying Student’s T-test, the mean values for the most water intensive trees in Cyprus of the 1994-2004 decade have shown no statistical difference from the mean values of 2005-2015 decade’s for all the cases, concluding that the climate change taking place the last decades in Cyprus have either not affected the crop evapotranspiration or the crops have managed to adapt into the new environmental conditions through time. ( G. Papadavid ) Generation of LAI (B) (in pseudo-color) using Landsat images (A) (Landsat7 ETM+ images). The use of Earth Observation methods for estimating regional Crop Evapotranspiration and Yield for Water Foot Print accounting. Remote Sensing can efficiently support the quantification of crop water requirements included in the goal of assessing water footprints (WF) which is to analyze how human activities or specific products relate to issues of water scarcity and pollution and to see how activities and products can become more sustainable from a water perspective. The study provides two examples of how remote sensing techniques are used essentially for providing crop evapotranspiration along with crop yield, two basic parameters, for accounting WF. Two different case studies have been illustrated to define the methodology. The methodology proposed refers to the 69 Rural Development