ABSTRACT
Irrigated lands can withstand the impacts of drought and ensure an increase in agricultural productivity and profits. Therefore, whenever and wherever economically feasible, farmers prefer to irrigate their crops. With increasing demands for surface water and groundwater, regional disputes arise over how to apportion water from the rivers that flow through two or more regions. Such disputes are often prolonged and are not resolved due to various factors, including the lack of reliable data on irrigated area within the territories of the disputed regions. This study presents a methodology for detecting irrigated lands using a pattern recognition (PR) technique on the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) satellite data. As an example, the ongoing dispute among the states of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia in the United States is discussed.
