A review of current methodologies for regional Evapotranspiration estimation from remotely sensed data

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3801-3853

  Li, Zhao Liang ^a,b   Tang, Ronglin ^a,b,c   Wan, Zhengming ^d   Bi, Yuyun ^b,e   Zhou, Chenghu ^a   Tang, Bohui ^a   Yan, Guangjian ^f   Zhang, Xiaoyu ^g  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b Faculté de Médecine   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning   (China)

^f BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; Methodology; Remote sensing; Review; Temporal scaling

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY MEASUREMENTS; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; REGIONAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; TEMPORAL SCALING; THERMAL INFRARED BANDS; TURBULENT HEAT FLUXES; TWO-SOURCE ENERGY BALANCE MODEL;

ESTIMATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; REVIEWS; WATER SUPPLY;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 70350486581     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90503801     Document Type: Review

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