About the Authors

Tal Rapaport

Affiliation The Remote Sensing Laboratory, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Uri Hochberg

Affiliation The French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Shimon Rachmilevitch

Affiliation The French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Arnon Karnieli

karnieli@bgu.ac.il

Affiliation The Remote Sensing Laboratory, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TR UH SR AK. Performed the experiments: TR UH. Analyzed the data: TR UH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TR UH SR AK. Wrote the paper: TR UH SR AK.