Jamal Elfarkh, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Postdoctoral fellow

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Research Interests

My research focuses on monitoring the water and energy surface-atmosphere exchange using the Earth observation satellites and field measurements. My studies focus on the development of new approaches to estimate evapotranspiration, vegetation water stress and water use efficiency.

Selected Publications

  • Multi-Scale Evaluation of the TSEB Model over a Complex Agricultural Landscape in Morocco
    J. Elfarkh, J. Ezzahar, S. Er-Raki, V. Simonneaux, B. Ait Hssaine, S. Rachidi, A. Brut, V. Rivalland, S. Khabba, A. Chehbouni, L. Jarlan; Remote Sens. 12, 1181. (2020) doi:10.3390/rs12071181
  • Integrating thermal stress indexes within Shuttleworth-Wallace model toward mapping evapotranspiration  J. Elfarkh, J. Ezzahar, S. Er-Raki, V. Simonneaux, B. Ait Hssaine, S. Rachidi, A. Brut, V. Rivalland, S. Khabba, A. Chehbouni, L. Jarlan; Irrigation Science Journal, doi:10.1007/s00271-020-00701-3
  • Estimation of the evapotranspiration over heterogeneous region using Shuttleworth-Wallace mode
    J. Elfarkh, S. Er-Raki, J. Ezzahar, L. Jarlan, S. Khabba and A. Chehbouni; Notes in Electrical Engineering (springer) (LNEE) intitulé: "Advances in Smart Technologies Applications and Case Studies
  • The use of sap flow and eddy covariance for evaluating the Shuttleworth-Wallace model to estimate evapotranspiration and transpiration over olive orchard in a semi-arid regionJ. Elfarkh, S. Er-Raki, J. Ezzahar, S. Khabba, L. Jarlan and A. Chehbouni
    Acta Horticulturae Vol. 1300, pp. 63-71, (2020)
  • Evaluation of Backscattering Models and Support Vector Machine for the Retrieval of Bare Soil Moisture from Sentinel-1 Data
    J. Ezzahar, N. Ouaadi, M. Zribi, J. Elfarkh, G. Aouade, S.Khabba, S. Er-Raki, A. Chehbouni and L. Jarlan
    Remote Sens. ,12, 72 (2020); doi:10.3390/rs12010072
  • Combining a Two Source Energy Balance Model Driven by MODIS and MSG-SEVIRI Products with an Aggregation Approach to Estimate Turbulent Fluxes over Sparse and Heterogeneous Vegetation in Sahel Region (Niger); B. Ait Hssaine, J. Ezzahar, L. Jarlan, O. Merlin, S. Khabba, A. Brut, S. Er-Raki, J. Elfarkh, B. Cappelaere and G. Chehbouni; Remote Sens. 10, 974 (2018); doi:10.3390/rs10060974

Education

  • Ph.D., Energy, remote sensing and water resources, Morocco, 2021
  • MS, Water Sciences, Morocco, 2016

Professional Profile

  • 2021-Present: Postdoctoral fellow, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

KAUST Affiliations

  • Water Desalination and Reuse Center (WDRC)
  • Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE)​​

Research Interests Keywords

Crop model Evapotranspiration Water stress Water use efficiency Remote sensing