Effects of spatial aggregation on the multi-scale estimation of evapotranspiration

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 131, Issue , 2013, Pages 51-62

  Ershadi, A ^a   McCabe, M F ^a,b   Evans, J P ^a   Walker, J P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aerodynamic resistance; Flux aggregation; Input aggregation; Land surface temperature; Landsat; MODIS; Roughness; Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS); Uncertainty; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC RESISTANCE; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LANDSAT; MODIS; SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY; UPSCALING;

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; AERODYNAMICS; AGGREGATES; BOND (MASONRY); ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HEAT FLUX; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; INTERPOLATION; METEOROLOGY; PHENOLS; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WATER SUPPLY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AERODYNAMICS; AGGREGATION; ALGORITHM; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND SURFACE; LANDSAT; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MODIS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; ROUGHNESS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84872332058     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.12.007     Document Type: Article

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