Future directions for advanced evapotranspiration modeling: Assimilation of remote sensing data into crop simulation models and SVAT models

Irrigation and Drainage Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 377-412

  Olioso, A ^a   Inoue, Y ^b   Ortega Farias, S ^c   Demarty, J ^a   Wigneron, J P ^a   Braud, I ^a,d   Jacob, F ^e   Lecharpentier, P ^a   Ottle C ^f   Calvet, J C ^g   Brisson, N ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA   (Chile)

^d GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^e ESAP   (France)

^f SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^g CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Assimilation of data into models; Crop simulation model; Evapotranspiration; Irrigation; Remote sensing; Soil vegetation atmosphere transfer model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS; DATA ACQUISITION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; INTERPOLATION; MAPPING; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING;

CROP SIMULATION MODEL; SOIL-VEGETATION-ATMOSPHERE TRANSFER MODELS (SVAT); WHEAT FIELDS;

IRRIGATION;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IRRIGATION; REMOTE SENSING;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 14944357885     PISSN: 01686291     EISSN: 15730654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10795-005-8143-z     Document Type: Article

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