Remote sensing techniques for predicting evapotranspiration from mixed vegetated surfaces

Urban Water Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 380-393

  Nouri, Hamideh ^a   Beecham, Simon ^b   Anderson, Sharolyn ^b   Hassanli, Ali Morad ^b,c   Kazemi, Fatemeh ^d  

^a SA WATER   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

evapotranspiration; remote sensing; satellite airborne images; spatial and temporal heterogeneity; urban parklands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929262756     PISSN: 1573062X     EISSN: 17449006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1573062X.2014.900092     Document Type: Article

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