Operational monitoring of daily evapotranspiration by the combination of MODIS NDVI and ground meteorological data: Application and evaluation in Central Italy

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 152, Issue , 2014, Pages 279-290

  Maselli, Fabio ^a   Papale, Dario ^b   Chiesi, Marta ^a   Matteucci, Giorgio ^c   Angeli, Luca ^d   Raschi, Antonio ^a   Seufert, Guenther ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOMETEOROLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^c CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^d LaMMA Consortium   (Italy)

^e JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crop coefficient; Evaporation; Latent heat; NDVI; Transpiration

Indexed keywords

CROPS; ECOSYSTEMS; EVAPORATION; LATENT HEAT; METEOROLOGY; RADIOMETERS; TRANSPIRATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; CROP COEFFICIENT; DAILY EVAPOTRANSPIRATIONS; EDDY COVARIANCE TECHNIQUE; FRACTIONAL VEGETATION COVER; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; NDVI; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; CENTRAL ITALY; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MODIS NDVI; OPERATIONAL MONITORING;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EVAPORATION;

EDDY COVARIANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LATENT HEAT FLUX; METEOROLOGY; MODIS; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION COVER; EXPERIMENT; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA;

ITALY;

EID: 84904899246     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.06.021     Document Type: Article

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