Using remotely sensed data to estimate area-averaged daily surface fluxes over a semi-arid mixed agricultural land

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 330-342

  Abdelghani, Chehbouni ^a   Hoedjes, Joost C B ^a   Rodriquez, Julio Cesar ^b   Watts, Chris J ^b   Garatuza, Jaime ^c   Jacob, Frederic ^d   Kerr, Yann H ^a  

^a CESBIO   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE SONORA   (Mexico)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Eddy covariance; Evaporative fraction; Evapotranspiration; Remote sensing; Semi arid regions

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HETEROGENEITY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SEMIARID REGION; SURFACE FLUX;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; SONORA; YAQUI VALLEY;

EID: 39749200219     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.09.014     Document Type: Article

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