Improving remotely sensed actual evapotranspiration estimation with raster meteorological data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 4606-4620

  Cherif, I ^a   Alexandridis, T K ^a   Jauch, E ^b   Chambel Leitao, P ^b   Almeida, C ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; METEOROLOGY; RADIOMETERS; RASTERIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER SUPPLY;

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; DAILY EVAPOTRANSPIRATIONS; ENERGY BALANCE MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INPUT; METEOROLOGICAL MODELING; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER SATELLITES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING DATA;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; METEOROLOGY; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RASTER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

PORTUGAL; SPAIN;

EID: 84943375226     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2015.1084439     Document Type: Article

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