Impact of the spatial domain size on the performance of the ts-vi triangle method in terrestrial evapotranspiration estimation

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1998-2013

  Tian, Jing ^a   Su, Hongbo ^a   Sun, Xiaomin ^b   Chen, Shaohui ^a   He, Honglin ^b   Zhao, Linjun ^c  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration estimation; Limiting boundaries of Ts VI space; Spatial domain size; Triangle method

Indexed keywords

LIMITING BOUNDARIES OF TS-VI SPACE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NORTHWESTERN CHINA; PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; SPATIAL DOMAINS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TERRESTRIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; TRIANGLE METHOD;

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION METHODS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER SUPPLY;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84880445994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5041998     Document Type: Article

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