An intercomparison of three remote sensing-based surface energy balance algorithms over a corn and soybean production region (Iowa, U.S.) during SMACEX

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 149, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2082-2097

  Choi, Minha ^a   Kustas, William P ^b   Anderson, Martha C ^b   Allen, Richard G ^c   Li, Fuqin ^d   Kjaersgaard, Jeppe H ^c  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d Australian Centre for Remote Sensing   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration modeling; METRIC; Remote sensing; Surface energy balance; Surface temperature; Trapezoid interpolation model; Two source model

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALGORITHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGY; INTERPOLATION; IRRIGATION; MAIZE; REMOTE SENSING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SOYBEAN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE ENERGY; VEGETATION COVER; WATER RESOURCE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

IOWA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 70449520101     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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