An application of the Ts-VI triangle method with enhanced edges determination for evapotranspiration estimation from MODIS data in arid and semi-arid regions: Implementation and validation

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 540-551

  Tang, Ronglin ^a,b,c   Li, Zhao Liang ^a,b   Tang, Bohui ^a  

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

^b Faculté de Médecine   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; Large Aperture Scintillometer; MODIS; Ts VI triangle space; Validation

Indexed keywords

APPLIED SURFACE; ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; DATA SETS; DRY AND WET; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HEIHE RIVER BASIN; LARGE APERTURE SCINTILLOMETER; LARGE APERTURE SCINTILLOMETERS; NORTHWEST CHINA; PRACTICAL ALGORITHMS; REGIONAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; VEGETATION INDEX;

ALGORITHMS; ARID REGIONS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RADIOMETERS; SCINTILLATION; VEGETATION; WATER SUPPLY;

SPECTROMETERS;

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRASSLAND; MODIS; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION INDEX;

CHINA; GANSU; HEIHE BASIN;

EID: 74049158302     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.10.012     Document Type: Article

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