Spatial-scale effect on the SEBAL model for evapotranspiration estimation using remote sensing data

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 174-175, Issue , 2013, Pages 28-42

  Tang, Ronglin ^a,b   Li, Zhao Liang ^c,d   Chen, Kun Shan ^b   Jia, Yuanyuan ^e   Li, Chuanrong ^e   Sun, Xiaomin ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Analytical equation; Evapotranspiration; SEBAL; Spatial scale effect; Surface energy balance

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HEAT FLUX; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MOMENTUM; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE ENERGY;

EID: 84876343330     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.01.008     Document Type: Article

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