Articles | Volume 20, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-697-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-697-2016
Research article
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12 Feb 2016
Research article |  | 12 Feb 2016

Estimating evaporation with thermal UAV data and two-source energy balance models

H. Hoffmann, H. Nieto, R. Jensen, R. Guzinski, P. Zarco-Tejada, and T. Friborg

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Thermal images collected with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are applied to algorithms originally developed to be operational with satellite images, in order to estimate evapotranspiration in very high resolution. It is concluded that the thermal UAV data can be used for model input and for other potential applications requiring good quality, consistent, and high resolution land surface temperature.