Estimating Land Surface Evaporation Using Remote Sensing Data

Dear Colleagues,

Evaporation is the process that changes liquid water to water vapor. Water moves from the Earth's surface to the atmosphere via evaporation. It is an important part in the global water cycle and plays an important role in terrestrial water, carbon, and surface energy exchange, with strong links to agriculture, hydrology, meteorology, and ecology. Accurate estimates of evaporation are important for understanding global climate change, ecological and environmental issues, the water cycle, and hydrological processes. Compared with conventional estimation methods through the information obtained from meteorological stations and ground flux-monitoring stations in different areas, remote sensing technology is suitable for large-scale and multi-temporal ET estimation. Moreover, it can save manpower and material resources, which are usually required to install evapotranspiration systems in a large area.

This Special Issue is aimed at papers that apply remote sensing data in evapotranspiration research, and seeks to gather research articles on innovative ET modeling methods that integrate remote sensing and ground station data for agricultural applications. We invite papers covering, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Better estimates of evapotranspiration and its components (soil evaporation, plant transpiration, and canopy interception) at multiple scales;
• Estimating evaporation on land surfaces including lakes, snow, and glaciers;
• Applications of evapotranspiration modeling in precision irrigation management, drought monitoring, and water resource management;
• Employing evapotranspiration for predicting crop yield and growth under different environmental and management conditions.

Dr. Bruno Aragon
Dr. Kevin Tu
Guest Editors

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• evapotranspiration modeling
• surface energy balance modeling
• satellite remote sensing
• thermal band
• water use
• crop coefficient