Mapping daily and seasonal evapotranspiration from irrigated crops using global climate grids and satellite imagery: Automation and methods comparison

Water Resources Research

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 7311-7326

  Biggs, Trent W ^a   Marshall, Michael ^b   Messina, Alex ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

consumptive water use; evapotranspiration; irrigated agriculture; MOD16; SEBAL

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; AUTOMATION; COTTON; CROPS; ERRORS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MAPPING; PIXELS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION; WATER SUPPLY;

IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE; MOD16; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATIONS; RADIOMETRIC SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATIONS; SEBAL; SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE ALGORITHM FOR LANDS; WATER USE;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ALGORITHM; COTTON; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GROWING SEASON; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; MAIZE; MAPPING METHOD; MODIS; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; PIXEL; RICE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION COVER; WATER USE;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84988905734     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016WR019107     Document Type: Article

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