Remote sensing of actual evapotranspiration from croplands

Remote Sensing of Water Resources, Disasters, and Urban Studies

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages 59-99

  Biggs, Trent W ^a   Petropoulos, George P ^b   Velpuri, Naga Manohar ^c   Marshall, Michael ^d   Glenn, Edward P ^e   Nagler, Pamela ^c   Messina, Alex ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES;

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84992455653     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b19321     Document Type: Chapter

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