A remote sensing surface energy balance algorithm for land (SEBAL) - 2. Validation
A remote sensing surface energy balance algorithm for land (SEBAL) - 2. Validation
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DOI:
10.1016/s0022-1694(98)00253-4
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发表时间:
1998-12-01
影响因子:
6.4
通讯作者:
van der Wal, T
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作者:
Bastiaanssen, WGM;Pelgrum, H;van der Wal, T
The major bottlenecks of existing algorithms to estimate the spatially distributed surface energy balance in composite terrain by means of remote sensing data are briefly summarised. The relationship between visible and thermal infrared spectral radiances of areas with a sufficiently large hydrological contrast (dry and wet land surface types, vegetative cover is not essential) constitute the basis for the formulation of the new Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL). The new algorithm (i) estimates the spatial variation of most essential hydro-meteorological parameters empirically, (ii) requires only field information on short wave atmospheric transmittance, surface temperature and vegetation height, (iii) does not involve numerical simulation models, (iv) calculates the fluxes independently from land cover and (v) can handle thermal infrared images at resolutions between a few meters to a few kilometers. The empirical relationships are adjusted to different geographical regions and time of image acquisition. Actual satellite data is inserted in the derivation of the regression coefficients. Part 2 deals with the validation of SEBAL. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science BV. All rights reserved.The surface fluxes obtained with the Surface Energy balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL), using remote sensing information and limited input data form the field were validated with data available from the large-scale field experiments EFEDA (Spain), HAPEX-Sahel (Niger) and HEIFE (China). In 85% of the cases where held scale surface flux ratios were compared with SEBAL-based surface flux ratios, the differences were within the range of instrumental inaccuracies. Without any calibration procedure, the root mean square error of the evaporative fraction \DeIta (latent heat flux/net available radiation) for footprints of a few hundred metres varied from Lambda(RMSE) = 0.10 to 0.20 Aggregation of several footprints to a length scale of a few kilometres reduced the overall error to five percent. Fluxes measured by aircraft during EFEDA were used to study the correctness of remote sensed watershed fluxes (1,000,000 ha):The overall difference in evaporative fraction was negligible. For the Sahelian landscape in Niger, observed differences were larger (15%), which could be attributed to the rapid moisture depletion of the coarse textured soils between the moment of image acquisition (Is September 1992) and the moment of in situ flux analysis (17 September 1992). For HEIFE, the average difference in SEBAL estimated and ground verified surface fluxes was 23 W m(-2), which, considering that surface fluxes were not used for calibration, is encouraging. SEBAl estimates of evaporation from the subsealevel Qattara Depression in Egypt (2,000,000 ha) were consistent with the numerically predicted discharge from the groundwater system. Tn Egypt's Nile Delta, the evaporation from a distributed held scale water balance model at a 700,000 ha irrigated agricultural region led to a difference of 5% with daily evaporative fluxes obtained from SEBAL. It is concluded that, for all study areas in arid zones, the errors average out if a larger number of pixels is considered. Part 1 of this chapter deals with the formulation of SEPAL. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.