MODIS vegetation metrics as indicators of hydrological response in watersheds of California Mediterranean-type climate zones

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2513-2523

  Fitch, Dillon T ^a   Stow, Douglas A ^a   Hope, Allen S ^a   Rey, Sergio ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Evapotranspiration; Mediterranean type climate; MODIS; Regression modeling; Watersheds

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CONFIRMATORY ANALYSIS; DROUGHT CONDITIONS; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MEDITERRANEAN-TYPE CLIMATE; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER SATELLITES; MODIS; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; POTENTIAL EVAPORATION; REGIONAL SCALE; REGRESSION MODELING; SPATIALLY VARYING PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL REGRESSION; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP; UNGAUGED WATERSHED; WATER BALANCE;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

RADIOMETERS;

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; DROUGHT; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MODIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; STREAMFLOW; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER BUDGET; WATER YIELD; WATERSHED;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956179616     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.05.026     Document Type: Article

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