Spatial scaling of evapotranspiration as affected by heterogeneities in vegetation, topography, and soil texture

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 33-51

  El Maayar, Mustapha ^a   Chen, Jing M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; Land cover; Soil texture; Spatial scaling; Sub pixel heterogeneity; Topography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

LAND COVER; SOIL TEXTURE; SPATIAL SCALING; SUB-PIXEL HETEROGENEITY;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

ALGORITHM; DATA ACQUISITION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PIXEL; SOIL COVER; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION; WATERSHED;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33646154000     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.01.017     Document Type: Article

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