Validation of global evapotranspiration product (MOD16) using flux tower data in the African savanna, South Africa

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 7406-7423

  Ramoelo, Abel ^a,b   Majozi, Nobuhle ^a   Mathieu, Renaud ^a,c   Jovanovic, Nebo ^a   Nickless, Alecia ^a   Dzikiti, Sebinasi ^a  

^a Natural Resource and Environment   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Eddy covariance; Evapotranspiration; Flux tower; MOD16; Penman Monteith

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

EDDY COVARIANCE; FLUX TOWERS; INTEGRATED WATER MANAGEMENT; MOD16; MODERATE RES-OLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; PENMAN MONTEITH; PENMAN-MONTEITH MODELS; SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENTS;

TOWERS;

EID: 84997525102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6087406     Document Type: Article

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