Estimation of Daily Actual Evapotranspiration from ETM+ and MODIS Data of the Headwaters of the West Liaohe Basin in the Semiarid Regions of China
Publication: Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 18, Issue 11
Abstract
Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important, but unmeasurable, component of the hydrological cycle in semiarid regions. Traditionally, actual ET is computed as residual in water balance equations. It is derived from estimates of potential ET or, indirectly, from field measurements at meteorological stations. Recently, researchers have begun using scintillometers, remote sensing data, and hydrological models to estimate areal actual ET. In this study, the surface energy balance algorithm for land (SEBAL) was used to derive ET maps from moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) images over the Laohahe basin and Shalamulun River basin. The effect of ground parameters on ET of the study area was quantified using the spatial analysis techniques of ArcGIS. At the end, ET estimated from Landsat 7 enhanced thematic mapper plus (ETM+) was compared with that from MODIS data over the Shalamulun River basin. SEBAL is a suitable algorithm for mapping evaporation over semiarid areas, using MODIS and Landsat images with few or no ground measurements. The ET of the study changes from 0 to . The land use types, elevation, land surface temperature (LST), and terrain all have a direct effect on the spatial distribution of ET. ET simulated from both MODIS and Landsat data give reasonable values; however, results from Landsat ETM+ are better compared to those of MODIS because Landsat data have higher spatial resolutions than MODIS data.
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Acknowledgments
This work has been funded by the innovative research team project under grant number 2009585412 by the basic research funds for National University at the State Key Laboratory of hydrology-water resources and hydraulic engineering. Also, this research is the result of the special basic research fund for methodology in hydrology under grant number 2011IM011000 by the ministry of sciences and technology, P. R. China, the national science foundation for young scientists of China (grant number 41201031), 111 project under grant number B08048 by the ministry of education and state administration of foreign experts affairs, P. R. China, and the fundamental research funds for the central universities of China (grant number 2011B01814). The authors gratefully thank three anonymous reviewers for their valuable advice in improving the first manuscript.
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Volume 18 • Issue 11 • November 2013
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Received: Jun 6, 2010
Accepted: Oct 29, 2011
Published online: Nov 2, 2011
Discussion open until: Apr 2, 2012
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