Evapotranspiration estimation with small UAVs in precision agriculture

H Niu, D Hollenbeck, T Zhao, D Wang, YQ Chen - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Estimating evapotranspiration (ET) has been one of the most critical research areas in
agriculture because of water scarcity, the growing population, and climate change. The …

Ground heat flux: An analytical review of 6 models evaluated at 88 sites and globally

AJ Purdy, JB Fisher, ML Goulden… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Uncertainty in ground heat flux (G) means that evaluation of the other terms in the surface
energy balance (eg, latent and sensible heat fluxes (LE and H)) remains problematic …

Global land-surface evaporation estimated from satellite-based observations

DG Miralles, TRH Holmes, RAM De Jeu… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2011 - hess.copernicus.org
This paper outlines a new strategy to derive evaporation from satellite observations. The
approach uses a variety of satellite-sensor products to estimate daily evaporation at a global …

Advances in thermal infrared remote sensing for land surface modeling

W Kustas, M Anderson - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2009 - Elsevier
Over 10 years ago, John Norman and co-authors proposed a thermal-based land surface
modeling strategy that treated the energy exchange and kinetic temperatures of the soil and …

Evapotranspiration estimates derived using thermal-based satellite remote sensing and data fusion for irrigation management in California vineyards

KR Knipper, WP Kustas, MC Anderson, JG Alfieri… - Irrigation Science, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Irrigation in the Central Valley of California is essential for successful wine grape
production. With reductions in water availability in much of California due to drought and …

[HTML][HTML] Map** daily evapotranspiration at field scales over rainfed and irrigated agricultural areas using remote sensing data fusion

C Cammalleri, MC Anderson, F Gao, CR Hain… - Agricultural and forest …, 2014 - Elsevier
Continuous monitoring of daily evapotranspiration (ET) at field scale can be achieved by
combining thermal infrared remote sensing data information from multiple satellite platforms …

Estimating evaporation with thermal UAV data and two-source energy balance models

H Hoffmann, H Nieto, R Jensen… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2016 - hess.copernicus.org
Estimating evaporation is important when managing water resources and cultivating crops.
Evaporation can be estimated using land surface heat flux models and remotely sensed …

Analysis of evaporative fraction diurnal behaviour

P Gentine, D Entekhabi, A Chehbouni, G Boulet… - Agricultural and forest …, 2007 - Elsevier
Experimental studies indicate that evaporative fraction (EF), the ratio between the latent heat
flux and the available energy at the land surface, is a normalized diagnostic that is nearly …

Monitoring and validating spatially and temporally continuous daily evaporation and transpiration at river basin scale

L Song, S Liu, WP Kustas, H Nieto, L Sun, Z Xu… - Remote sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Operational estimation of spatio-temporal continuously daily evapotranspiration (ET), and
the components evaporation (E) and transpiration (T), at river basin scale is very useful for …

Evaluation of TSEB turbulent fluxes using different methods for the retrieval of soil and canopy component temperatures from UAV thermal and multispectral imagery

H Nieto, WP Kustas, A Torres-Rúa, JG Alfieri, F Gao… - Irrigation Science, 2019 - Springer
Abstract The thermal-based Two-Source Energy Balance (TSEB) model partitions the
evapotranspiration (ET) and energy fluxes from vegetation and soil components providing …