On uncertainties of the Priestley-Taylor/LST-Fc feature space method to estimate evapotranspiration: Case study in an arid/semiarid region in northwest China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 447-466

  Li, Zhansheng ^a,b   Jia, Li ^a,c   Lu, Jing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

Author keywords

Dry wet boundaries; Evapotranspiration; LST Fc feature space; Priestley Taylor equation

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HEAT FLUX; REMOTE SENSING; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

ADVANCED-ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS; AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS; ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; FEATURE SPACE; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; PRIESTLEY-TAYLOR EQUATION; SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE INDICES; WATERRESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84920797406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70100447     Document Type: Article

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