1. From Pocket to Pixels: Smartphone-Based Proximal Sensing for Quantitative Monitoring of Peach Canopy Dynamics

Monitoring peach canopy dynamics is essential for optimizing irrigation scheduling and promoting sustainable water management in intensively managed orchards. In well-watered systems, conventional irrigation practices often overlook spatial and temporal variability in canopy size and leaf area index (LAI), potentially leading to inefficient water use. Canopy size, as reflected by LAI—the ratio of total leaf area to ground area—serves as a key biophysical indicator linked to crop transpiration... L. Katz, K. Genkin, A. Landau, Y. Ness, O. Crane, R. Golan, N. Rotbart, E. Nevo, O. Shapira, E. Fereres, O. Reichmann, A. Brook