Publications Hatem Belhouchette
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H. Bazzi ; N. Baghdadi ; D. Ienco ; M. Zribi ; H. Belhouchette | 2020The objective of this paper is to present an approach for mapping irrigated areas at plot scale using the Sentinel-1 radar time series. Over a study site located in Catalonia region of north Spain, a dense temporal series of S1 backscattering co[...]Actes de Congrès ou Communication isolée
H. Bazzi ; N. Baghdadi ; D. Ienco ; M. Zribi ; H. Belhouchette | 2020Irrigation plays a significant role in agricultural production in order to meet the global food requirement under changing climatic conditions. To fulfill the high demand for food with an ever-increasing global population, better planning of irr[...]Actes de Congrès ou Communication isolée
M. El Moujabber, ed. ; H. Belhouchette, ed. ; M. Belkhodja, ed. ; P. Kalaïtzis, ed. ; R. Cosentino, collab. ; W. Occhialini, collab. | Bari [Italie] : CIHEAM-IAMB | Options Méditerranéennes : Série A. Séminaires Méditerranéens, ISSN 0253-1542 | 2020After the success of the 1st edition of Montpellier in 2016, CIHEAM organized the 2nd edition of the Mediterranean initiative for PhD students and young researchers (MedForum2018) at CIHEAM Bari (Italy) from 18 to 20 September 2018. MedForum2018[...]Article
H. Bazzi ; N. Baghdadi ; M. El Hajj ; M. Zribi ; H. Belhouchette |This paper presents a comparison between the Sentinel-1/Sentinel-2-derived soil moisture product at plot scale (S 2 MP) and the new Copernicus surface soil moisture (C-SSM) product at 1-km scale over a wide region in southern France. In this stu[...]Article
Farming systems are complex and include a variety of interacting biophysical and technical components. This complexity must be taken into account when designing farming systems to improve sustainability, but more methods are needed to be able to[...]Article
A. Nasrallah ; N. Baghdadi ; M. El Hajj ; T. Darwish ; H. Belhouchette ; G. Faour ; S. Darwich ; M. Mhawej |The ability of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Sentinel-1 data to detect the main wheat phenological phases was investigated in the Bekaa plain of Lebanon. Accordingly, the temporal variation of Sentinel-1 (S1) signal was analyzed as a function o[...]Article
H. Jeder ; E. Hamza ; H. Belhouchette ; A. Mzoughi |Tunisia is among the Mediterranean countries that are threatened by climate change. The agricultural sector is the economic sector that will be most affected by this phenomenon. Thinking of adequate adaptation policies to increase the resilience[...]Article
H. Bazzi ; N. Baghdadi ; D. Ienco ; M. El Hajj ; M. Zribi ; H. Belhouchette ; M.J. Escorihuela ; V. Demarez |Mapping irrigated plots is essential for better water resource management. Today, the free and open access Sentinel-1 (S1) and Sentinel-2 (S2) data with high revisit time offers a powerful tool for irrigation mapping at plot scale. Up to date, f[...]Article
Increasing pressures on water resources are causing many countries in Mediterranean to (re)consider various mechanisms to improve water use efficiency for agricultural like Tunisia country. The price mechanism remains the most appropriate instru[...]Article
H. Bazzi ; N. Baghdadi ; M. El Hajj ; M. Zribi ; D. Ho Tong Minh ; E. Ndikumana ; D. Courault ; H. Belhouchette |This study proposes an effective method to map rice crops using the Sentinel-1 SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) time series over the Camargue region, Southern France. First, the temporal behavior of the SAR backscattering coefficient over 832 plot[...]Article
One of the challenges of eco-efficient agriculture is the development of operational farming practices to increase the level of agricultural production, maximize the efficiency of resource use and reduce environmental impacts. Based on the effic[...]Article
M. Hammouda ; J. Wery ; T. Darbin ; H. Belhouchette |In an uncertain socio-economic and climatic context, sustainable farming is a major challenge for farmers as well as for their agricultural advisors. It is therefore essential to develop a decision support tool (DST) that is likely to be useful [...]Article
A. Nasrallah ; N. Baghdadi ; M. Mhawej ; G. Faour ; T. Darwish ; H. Belhouchette ; S. Darwich |Global wheat production reached 754.8 million tons in 2017, according to the FAO database. While wheat is considered as a staple food for many populations across the globe, mapping wheat could be an effective tool to achieve the SDG2 sustainable[...]Article
I. Souissi ; J.-M. Boisson ; I. Mekki ; O. Therond ; G. Flichman ; J. Wery ; H. Belhouchette |This study considers a quantitative approach for assessing the performance of Tunisian farming systems to face climate change. It is based on the resilience concept and the calculation, with a modelling chain, of three indicators: land stock, la[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
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R. Chenoune ; T. Allen ; A. Komarek ; S. Gomez y Paloma ; G. Flichman ; A. Capillon ; H. Belhouchette |Although Sierra Leone aims to improve the livelihoods of its rice-farming households, the effect of specific policy changes on diverse households remains an open question. This study presents a household model that simulates strategies of produc[...]Article
Agricultural household effects of fertilizer price changes for smallholder farmers in central Malawi
A. Komarek ; S. Drogué ; R. Chenoune ; J. Hawkins ; S. Msangi ; H. Belhouchette ; G. Flichman |This simulation study explored the agricultural household effects of changes in the price of inorganic nitrogen fertilizer for farmers in central Malawi. We selected the Dedza district to conduct this study, which is a district reliant on maize [...]Actes de Congrès ou Communication isolée
Le CIHEAM a organisé à Montpellier le 1er Forum à l'intention des doctorants et jeunes chercheurs de la région méditerranéenne, pour favoriser la communication, le dialogue et les co-publications entre les différents partenaires de la recherche [...]Actes de Congrès ou Communication isolée
The CIHEAM launched its First Forum initiative for PhD students and young researchers from the Mediterranean area. The Forum was organized at its Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier with the aim to foster communication, dialogue and[...]Article
F. Mahmood ; H. Belhouchette ; W. Nasim ; T. Shahzad ; S. Hussain ; O. Therond ; S. Fahad ; S. Refat Sultana ; J. Wery |The reconciliation of economy and environment is a key factor in achieving sustainability. The European Union wishes to achieve the sustainability of its agriculture in order to produce high quality food materials and to manage energy crisis and[...]Article
In Sierra Leone, several international organizations are trying to help the government improve the productivity of its rice farms, which currently have the lowest rice yields in West Africa. However, the various programmes attempting to increase[...]Article
W. Nasim ; A. Ahmad ; H. Belhouchette ; S. Fahad ; G. Hoogenboom |Crop models and decision support system can be useful tools for researchers, teachers, scientists, extension educators, policy makers and planners to help or support the application and evaluation of sustainable and long term alternative managem[...]Article
W. Nasim ; H. Belhouchette ; A. Ahmad ; G. Rasul ; K. Jabran ; K. Ullah ; S. Fahad ; M. Shakeel ; M. Habib-ur-Rahman ; G. Hoogenboom |Issues such as climate change, food security, water scarcity and environmental sustainability have all 18 become major global challenges. As a consequence, increasing crop productivity has become an 19 important aspect in improving resource use [...]Article
W. Nasim ; H. Belhouchette ; M. Tariq ; S. Fahad ; H.M. Hammad ; M. Mubeen ; M.F.H. Munis ; H.J. Chaudhary ; I. Khan ; F. Mahmood ; T. Abbas ; F. Rasul ; M. Nadeem ; A.A. Bajwa ; N. Ullah ; F. Alghabari ; S. Saud ; H. Mubarak ; R. Ahmad |Nitrogen (N) fertilizer is an important yield limiting factor for sunflower production. The correlation between yield components and growth parameters of three sunflower hybrids (Hysun-33, Hysun-38, Pioneer-64A93) were studied with five N rates [...]