Comparing Aircraft-Based Remotely Sensed Energy Balance Fluxes with Eddy Covariance Tower Data Using Heat Flux Source Area Functions
Open Access
- 1 December 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Journal of Hydrometeorology
- Vol. 6 (6), 923-940
- https://doi.org/10.1175/jhm467.1
Abstract
In an effort to better evaluate distributed airborne remotely sensed sensible and latent heat flux estimates, two heat flux source area (footprint) models were applied to the imagery, and their pixel weighting/integrating functionality was investigated through statistical analysis. Soil heat flux and sensible heat flux models were calibrated. The latent heat flux was determined as a residual from the energy balance equation. The resulting raster images were integrated using the 2D footprints and were compared to eddy covariance energy balance flux measurements. The results show latent heat flux estimates (adjusted for closure) with errors of (mean ± std dev) −9.2 ± 39.4 W m−2, sensible heat flux estimate errors of 9.4 ± 28.3 W m−2, net radiation error of −4.8 ± 20.7 W m−2, and soil heat flux error of −0.5 ± 24.5 W m−2. This good agreement with measured values indicates that the adopted methodology for estimating the energy balance components, using high-resolution airborne multispectral imagery, ... Abstract In an effort to better evaluate distributed airborne remotely sensed sensible and latent heat flux estimates, two heat flux source area (footprint) models were applied to the imagery, and their pixel weighting/integrating functionality was investigated through statistical analysis. Soil heat flux and sensible heat flux models were calibrated. The latent heat flux was determined as a residual from the energy balance equation. The resulting raster images were integrated using the 2D footprints and were compared to eddy covariance energy balance flux measurements. The results show latent heat flux estimates (adjusted for closure) with errors of (mean ± std dev) −9.2 ± 39.4 W m−2, sensible heat flux estimate errors of 9.4 ± 28.3 W m−2, net radiation error of −4.8 ± 20.7 W m−2, and soil heat flux error of −0.5 ± 24.5 W m−2. This good agreement with measured values indicates that the adopted methodology for estimating the energy balance components, using high-resolution airborne multispectral imagery, ...Keywords
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