Evaporative fraction as an indicator of moisture condition and water stress status in semi-arid rangeland ecosystems

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 6300-6323

  Nutini, Francesco ^a   Boschetti, Mirco ^a   Candiani, Gabriele ^a   Bocchi, Stefano ^b   Brivio, Pietro Alessandro ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomass estimation; Evaporative fraction; Semi arid rangeland

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; BIOMASS; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

BIOMASS ESTIMATION; BIOMASS MEASUREMENTS; EDDY COVARIANCE TOWERS; EVAPORATIVE FRACTION; SEMI-ARID RANGELAND; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; VEGETATION CONDITION; WATER AVAILABILITY FACTORS; OPERATIONAL PRODUCTS;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

EID: 84904468059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6076300     Document Type: Article

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