Passive microwave and optical index approaches for estimating surface conductance and evapotranspiration in forest ecosystems

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 213, Issue , 2015, Pages 126-137

  Barraza, Verónica ^a   Restrepo Coupe, Natalia ^b   Huete, Alfredo ^b   Grings, Francisco ^a   Van Gorsel, Eva ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTRONOMÍA Y FÍSICA DEL ESPACIO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

evapotranspiration; microwave index; optical indices; surface conductance

Indexed keywords

AMSR-E; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INDEX METHOD; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MODEL TEST; MODIS; PARAMETERIZATION; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; VEGETATION TYPE;

AUSTRALIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84936759508     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.06.020     Document Type: Article

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