Seasonal trends of satellite-based evapotranspiration algorithms over a complex ecosystem in East Asia

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 137, Issue , 2013, Pages 244-263

  Hwang, Kyotaek ^a   Choi, Minha ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Complex ecosystem; Evapotranspiration; Intra annual variation; MODIS; Penman Monteith; Priestley Taylor

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX ECOSYSTEMS; INTRA-ANNUAL VARIATION; MODIS; PENMAN-MONTEITH; PRIESTLEY-TAYLOR;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ECOSYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

WATER SUPPLY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ECOHYDROLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; NDVI; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER RETENTION; WATER SUPPLY;

FAR EAST;

EID: 84881234178     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.06.006     Document Type: Article

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