A VERIFICATION OF THE TRIANGLE METHOD FOR OBTAINING SURFACE SOIL-WATER CONTENT AND ENERGY FLUXES FROM REMOTE MEASUREMENTS OF THE NORMALIZEDDIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI) AND SURFACE RADIANT TEMPERATURE
Rr. Gillies et al., A VERIFICATION OF THE TRIANGLE METHOD FOR OBTAINING SURFACE SOIL-WATER CONTENT AND ENERGY FLUXES FROM REMOTE MEASUREMENTS OF THE NORMALIZEDDIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI) AND SURFACE RADIANT TEMPERATURE, International journal of remote sensing, 18(15), 1997, pp. 3145-3166
An inversion procedure is presented for estimating surface soil water
content (as surface moisture availability, M-o), fractional vegetation
cover (Fr), and the instantaneous surface energy fluxes, using remote
multispectral measurements made from an aircraft. The remotely derive
d values of these fluxes and the soil water content are compared with
field measurements from two intensive field measurement programs-FIFE
and MONSOON '90. The measurements from the NS001 multispectral radiome
ter were reduced to fractional vegetation cover, surface soil water co
ntent (surface moisture availability), and turbulent energy fluxes, wi
th the application of a soil vegetation atmosphere transfer (SVAT) mod
el. A further step in the inversion process involved 'stretching' the
SVAT results between pre-determined boundaries of the distribution of
normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and surface radiant temp
erature (T-o). Comparisons with measurements at a number of sites from
two field experiments show standard errors, between derived and measu
red fluxes, generally between 25 and 55 Wm(-2), or about 10-30 per cen
t of the magnitude of the fluxes and for surface moisture availability
of 16 per cent.