Evaluation of optical remote sensing to estimate actual evapotranspiration and canopy conductance

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 129, Issue , 2013, Pages 250-261

  Yebra, Marta ^a   Van Dijk, Albert ^a,b   Leuning, Ray ^a   Huete, Alfredo ^c   Guerschman, Juan Pablo ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

EF; ET; FPAR; LAI; MODIS; Penman Monteith; Surface conductance; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

EF; ET; FPAR; LAI; MODIS; PENMAN MONTEITH; SURFACE CONDUCTANCE; VEGETATION INDEX;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORESTRY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ESTIMATION;

CANOPY EXCHANGE; DATA SET; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EDDY COVARIANCE; ERROR ANALYSIS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EVERGREEN FOREST; FLUX MEASUREMENT; LAND COVER; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODIS; NDVI; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE FLUX;

COEFFICIENTS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PLANTS; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84870666828     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.11.004     Document Type: Article

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