Combining Remotely Sensed Data and Ground-Based Radiometers to Estimate Crop Cover and Surface Temperatures at Daily Time Steps

Estimation of evapotranspiration (ET) is important for monitoring crop water stress and for developing decision support systems for irrigation scheduling. Techniques to estimate ET have been available for many years, while more recently remote sensing data have extended ET into a spatially distributed context. However, remote sensing data cannot be easily used in decision systems if they are not available frequently. For many crops ET estimates are needed at intervals of a week or less, but unfortunately due to cost, weather, and sensor availability constraints, high resolution ( <100 m ) remote sensing data are usually available no more frequently than 2 weeks. Since resolution of this problem is unlikely to occur soon, a modeling approach has been developed to extrapolate remotely sensed inputs needed to estimate ET. The approach accomplishes this by combining time-series observations from ground-based radiometers and meteorological instruments with episodic visible, near infrared, and thermal infrared ...

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