Assessment of daily actual evapotranspiration with SEBAL and S-SEBI algorithms in cotton crop

The main objective of this study is to assess the daily ET accuracy obtained by remote sensing algorithms in comparison with measurements in situ. The experiment was conducted in the State of Ceará, Brazil, in a cotton experimental field of EMBRAPA using Bowen ratio measurements to obtain the energy balance components. SEBAL and S-SEBI algorithms were used with four TM Landsat - 5 images of 2005, in order to determine the actual evapotranspiration of cotton crop. The comparison between the estimated values by remote sensing algorithms and the measured values in situ showed that the methods (SEBAL and S-SEBI) presented satisfactory results. The S-SEBI algorithm is an important tool to be applied in ET analysis of semi-arid regions, due its practicability to solve the energy balance and its processing is simpler than SEBAL algorithm which needs the solution of an iterative process.

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Main Authors: Santos,Carlos Antonio Costa dos, Bezerra,Bergson Guedes, Silva,Bernardo Barbosa da, Rao,Tantravahi Venkata Ramana
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Meteorologia 2010
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-77862010000300010
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