MODELLING REGIONAL ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION USING SATELLITE DATA: OVER NETRAVATHI BASIN - Softcover

RAJU B C, KUMAR; NANDAGIRI, Dr. LAKSHMAN

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3845409738 ISBN 13: 9783845409733

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Knowledge of evapotranspiration defined as the ratio between actual evaporation to available energy, is a key component in studies related to water and energy balances on the Earth's surface. In the last two decades many models have been developed to estimate evapotranspiration for a wide range of patial and temporal scales, and surface conditions. Availability of land surface variables at large spatial scales from remote sensing has led to development of approaches that permit mapping of potential and actual ET at river basin scales. In particular, data products from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors onboard the EOS-Terra and EOS-Aqua satellites, are extremely popular in regional evapotranspiration mapping studies.The present study was taken up to map the daily actual evapotranspiration over the Netravathi river basin using MODIS data. This river basin extending over an area of 3314.43 km2 is located in the humid tropical region of coastal Karnataka State, India.

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About the Author

Kumar Raju B C received a B E from Visvesvaraya Technological University with a major in Civil Engineering in 2004. He completed a M Tech in Remote Sensing and GIS from the National Institute of technology Karnataka in 2010.He has been involved in Remote Sensing and GIS applications across Western Ghats of India

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3845409738
• ISBN 13: 9783845409733
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 68