Estimation of the Spatial Variation in Evapotranspiration based on Landsat TM and Noaa Satellite Imagery

Søgaard, Henrik: Estimation of the Spatial Variation in Evapotranspiration based on Landsat TM and NOAA Satellite Imagery. Geografisk Tidsskrift 92: 80–85. Copenhagen 1992. During the last decade, the use of satellite imagery for monitoring water and energy budgets has gained increasing interest. Based on ground reference data collected above a barley field located near Viborg in Jutland, the so-called simplified relationship between net radiation, temperature, and evapotranspiration was examined. It was found that the difference between evapotranspiration and net radiation depends on both the temperature difference between the surface and the air, and the surface roughness. The derived relationship was applied for monitoring evapotranspiration on the basis of surface temperature measured by the NOAA- satellites. This paper will present this study and examine the resolution problem caused by the field size being less in area than the 1 km by 1 km covered by a single NOAA picture element. For a selected day in July, this was done by comparing the NOAA data with Landsat TM-data which has a 120 m resolution in the thermal band

Evapotranspiration · Geography · Meteorology · Remote sensing · Satellite · Satellite imagery · Spatial variability · Climate variability and models · Environmental Science · Geology · Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics · Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics

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