Remote sensing of surface energy fluxes at 101-m pixel resolutions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Norman, J M ^a   Anderson, M C ^a   Kustas, W P ^b   French, A N ^b,c,e   Mecikalski, J ^a   Torn, R ^a,d   Diak, G R ^a   Schmugge, T J ^b   Tanner, B C W ^a,d,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Disaggregation; Remote sensing; Surface flux models; Thermal infrared

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORESTRY; HYDROLOGY; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; REMOTE SENSING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

LAND MANAGEMENT; SURFACE FLUXES;

WATER RESOURCES;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GOES; INFRARED IMAGERY; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE FLUX;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037884494     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002WR001775     Document Type: Article

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