Assessing Water Stress of Desert Tamarugo Trees Using in situ Data and Very High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing
The hyper-arid Atacama Desert is one of the most extreme environments for life and only few species have evolved to survive its aridness.One such species is the tree Prosopis tamarugo Phil.Because Tamarugo completely depends on groundwater, it is being threatened by the high water demand from the Chilean mining industry and the human consumption.In