A new look at remote measurement of soil water content and the surface energy fluxes using thermal infrared

Author

Carlson, T.N. ; Gillies, R.R. ; Capehart, W.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Meteorol., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

748

Abstract

Describes a new method for estimating the spatial variation in surface soil water content and the surface energy fluxes. Satisfactory surface energy fluxes can be calculated with the aid of constraints imposed by a visual inspection of the measurements in the form of scatterplots (the “triangle method”). The authors briefly address inherent inability of surface radiant temperatures to determine root-zone water content (“decoupling”)

Keywords

atmospheric boundary layer; atmospheric radiation; atmospheric techniques; geophysical techniques; hydrological techniques; infrared imaging; moisture measurement; radiometry; remote sensing; soil; IR method; atmosphere meteorology; boundary layer; hydrology; infrared radiometry; land surface; measurement technique; remote sensing; root zone water content decoupling; scatterplot; soil moisture; spatial variation; surface energy flux; surface radiant temperature; thermal infrared; triangle method; water content; Atmospheric modeling; Energy measurement; Geoscience; Meteorology; Scattering; Soil measurements; State estimation; Surface soil; Temperature distribution; Vegetation mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2567-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.520575

Filename

520575