Estimated crop irrigation water use withdrawals in Willcox Groundwater Basin, Arizona for 2020

Observations of irrigated agricultural land within the Willcox Groundwater Basin in Arizona. Crops were verified in situ twice in 2020, first on May 20th and again on August 12th; based on digitized field boundaries. Field boundaries were digitized from U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Imagery Program images dated 2019 and supplemented with Landsat and Sentinel2 imagery collections accessed via the U.S. Geological Survey LandLook Viewer (https://landlook.usgs.gov/) and Sentinel Hub, Sentinel Playground (https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel-playground). Satellite images were also used to identify the length of the growing season and crop condition. Water withdrawals were calculated using the modified Blaney-Criddle [...]