Remote sensing (RS) of agricultural production has a high potential to contribute to the management of irrigated rice crops. To analyse this hypothesis, six commercial fields in the western border of Rio Grande do Sul with the IRGA 424RI cultivar were monitored in the field during the 2016/17 harvest, recording the characteristics of the area, management procedures and the main stages of rice development throughout the cycle. The available images from the OLI sensor of the Landsat 8 satellite with less atmospheric interference between September 2016 and April 2017 were processed to obtain the...