Research on the Scale Effect of the Evapotranspiration Retrieved by Satellite Sensors

Author

Liu, Yani ; Xin, Xiaozhou ; Liu, Qinhuo

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Remote Sensing Sci., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing

Volume

3

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Abstract

Evapotranspiration (ET) plays an important role in energy exchange and hydrological cycle between the land surface and atmosphere. Over the last decades, scientists have developed many models and algorithms to have a better determination of regional ET by remote sensing data. However, at regional scale, the field measured data and remote sensing data are inconsistent with each other due to the underlying surface heterogeneity. In this study, remotely sensed ET was carried out using Landsat ETM+ and MODIS data to understand the role of landscape heterogeneity and its influence on the scaling behavior of surface fluxes. This knowledge is very useful for correction of scale error of ET estimation, and can also be used to study the spatio-temporal effect of remotely sensed ET, which is going to be carried out in the future.

Keywords

evaporation; remote sensing; transpiration; Beijing city; China; Landsat ETM+ data; MODIS data; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer; Shunyi area; atmosphere; energy exchange; evapotranspiration; hydrological cycle; land surface; landscape heterogeneity; remote sensing data; satellite sensor; spatio-temporal effect; surface heterogeneity; Atmosphere; Atmospheric measurements; Atmospheric modeling; Energy exchange; Error correction; Hydrologic measurements; Land surface; MODIS; Remote sensing; Satellites; Energy Balance method; Evapotranspiration (ET); Remote Sensing; Retrieve; Scale effect;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2807-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2808-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779370

Filename

4779370