1. Growth-Stage and Hourly Modeling of Non-Stressed Soybean Canopy Temperature Using High-Frequency Proximal Thermal Sensing

Canopy temperature (Tc) sensing provides a proximal, non-destructive approach for monitoring crop water status. It supports irrigation scheduling through thermal indices such as the Crop Water Stress Index (CWSI) and Degrees Above Non-Stressed (DANS), both of which require accurate estimation of non-stressed canopy temperature (Tcns) (Nakabuye et al., 2022). Maintaining a continuously non-stressed reference treatment to determine Tcns is operationally difficult, motivating development of weather-based...