Title

An operational method to estimate evapotranspiration using MODIS data during winter wheat growing season

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Publication Date

9-2011

Volume

32

Issue

17

First Page

4915

Last Page

4932

Abstract

The Penman–Monteith (P-M) model has been widely used to estimate actual evapotranspiration (ET). However, its application is mainly constrained to within field scales because the surface resistance under water stress at large scales is difficult to define. The Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) derived from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data was shown to be sensitive to the crop water content and water deficit, and used to estimate the surface resistance in the P-M model. The modelled latent heat fluxes matched well with the eddy correlation observations, and the spatial distributions also showed a similar pattern as the results from the one-layer model in an irrigated area at the downstream of Yellow River. To reduce the influence of cloud and other atmospheric disturbances, the daily surface resistance was retrieved from 8-day temporal composite MODIS NDWI. The modelled daily ET showed consistent temporal changes with the observations during the wheat growing season. This method showed advantages over the other remote sensing models, for example, the one-layer model, which required daily radiative temperature inputs and cannot be implemented under cloudy conditions.

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2010.492252

Rights

© 2011 Taylor & Francis

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