Development of an evapotranspiration index from Aqua/MODIS for monitoring surface moisture status

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 2 PART 1, 2003, Pages 493-500

  Nishida, Kenlo ^b   Nemani, Ramakrishna R ^c   Glassy, Joseph M ^d   Running, Steven W ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d Lupine Logic Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Aqua; Evapotranspiration; MODIS; Surface moisture; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EVAPORATION; MOISTURE; RADIOMETRY; VEGETATION;

SURFACE MOISTURE; VEGETATION INDEX; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

EID: 36549089982     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.811744     Document Type: Article

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