**Acknowledgements**

We gratefully acknowledge Water Development Department in Cyprus for their technical support during the in-situ measurements. The authors acknowledge the support of the Remote Sensing Laboratory of the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics at the Cyprus University of Technology (http:///www.cut.ac.cy). The Remote Sensing Laboratory would like to thank SignalGeneriX Ltd for developing the Wisense® smart data and remote monitoring system. Thanks are given also to European Space Agency (ESA) for the provision of the Proba/ Chris satellite imagery. This work is part of the PhD study of Christiana Papoutsa.
