The SPARSE model for the prediction of water stress and evapotranspiration components from thermal infra-red data and its evaluation over irrigated and rainfed wheat

• Published in: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 11 (19), 4653-4672. (2015)
• Main Authors: Boulet, Gilles, Mougenot, Bernard, Lhomme, Jean-Paul, Fanise, Pascal, Lili-Chabaane, Zohra, Olioso, Albert, Bahir, Malik, Rivalland, Vincent, Jarlan, Lionel, Merlin, Olivier, Coudert, Benoît, Er-Raki, Salah, Lagouarde, Jean-Pierre
• Format: Publication
• Language: English
• Published: 2015

Evapotranspiration is an important component of the water cycle, especially in semi-arid lands. A way to quantify the spatial distribution of evapotranspiration and water stress from remote-sensing data is to exploit the available surface temperature as a signature of the surface energy balance. Rem...