Validation and scale dependencies of the triangle method for the evaporative fraction estimation over heterogeneous areas

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 152, Issue , 2014, Pages 493-511

  de Tomás, Alberto ^a   Nieto, Héctor ^b   Guzinski, Radoslaw ^b   Salas, Javier ^c   Sandholt, Inge ^d   Berliner, Pedro ^a,e  

^a IMDEA WATER INSTITUTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Envisat AATSR MERIS; Evaporative fraction; Evapotranspiration; Landsat5 TM; MSG SEVIRI; Remote sensing; Surface layer scintillometer; Triangle method

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GEODETIC SATELLITES; REMOTE SENSING; SCINTILLATION; SPACE OPTICS;

ENVISAT-AATSR/MERIS; EVAPORATIVE FRACTION; LANDSAT-5; MSG-SEVIRI; SURFACE LAYERS; TRIANGLE METHOD;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPORATION; LANDSAT; LATENT HEAT FLUX; LEAF AREA INDEX; REMOTE SENSING; WATER FLOW; ALTITUDE; CROP; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LAND SURFACE; LANDSCAPE; NDVI; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TERRAIN; VEGETATION INDEX; WINTER;

SPAIN;

EID: 84905391557     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.06.028     Document Type: Article

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