Mapping evapotranspiration with high-resolution aircraft imagery over vineyards using one-and two-source modeling schemes

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1523-1545

  Xia, Ting ^a,b   Kustas, William P ^b   Anderson, Martha C ^b   Alfieri, Joseph G ^b   Gao, Feng ^b   McKee, Lynn ^b   Prueger, John H ^c   Geli, Hatim M E ^d   Neale, Christopher M U ^e   Sanchez, Luis ^f   Alsina, Maria Mar ^f   Wang, Zhongjing ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d Utah State University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^f E and J Gallo Winery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; WATER SUPPLY;

CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; DEGREE OF SENSITIVITY; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODEL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; TURBULENT TRANSPORTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; AIRCRAFT; CANOPY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROWING SEASON; HEAT FLUX; LAND SURFACE; MAPPING METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VINEYARD; WATER USE;

EID: 84965162569     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-20-1523-2016     Document Type: Article

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