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Title:   Author  item
                                            Yang, Yunitem
                                            Anderson, Marthaitem
                                            Gao, Fengitem
                                            HAIN, C. - Collaboratoritem
                                            Kustas, William

                                                         - *Bill*item
                                            NOORMETS, A. - Collaboratoritem
                                            WYNNE, R.H. - Virginia Polytechnic Institution & State Universityitem
                                            THOMAS, V.A. - Virginia Polytechnic Institution & State Universityitem
                                            GE, S. - Collaborator
  Submitted to: BARC Poster Day
                                    Publication Type: Abstract Only
                                    Publication Acceptance Date: 5/5/2015
                                    Publication  Date: N/A
                                    Citation: N/AInterpretive Summary:
                                Technical Abstract: Evapotranspiration (ET) over agricultural land surfaces represents the rate at which soil water is consumed in growing crops. Maps of ET,produced at high spatial and temporal resolution using satellite imagery, can provide detailed information about daily vegetation water use and soil moisture status at scales of individual farm fields, and can be valuable for irrigation management and monitoring crop health. This research employs a multi-scale ET modeling system over a managed pine plantation site in North Carolina during the 2013 growing season to determine the accuracy of stand-scale forest water-use estimates. The influence of land cover type and stand age on water use was also examined using time-series of daily ET maps generated at 30-m spatial resolution.

The multi-scale ET modeling system integrates the Atmosphere-Land Exchange Inverse surface energy balance model and associated disaggregation scheme (ALEXI/DisALEXI), generating ET estimates from multiple satellite platforms with varying spatial and temporal resolution characteristics. The Spatial and Temporal Adaptive Reflective Fusion Model (STARFM) was used to combine these water use maps, creating ET maps with both the fine spatial detail and good temporal sampling required for agricultural water management applications.

Daily high ET retrievals at 30-m spatial resolution, generated using multi-satellite data fusion, were compared with observations acquired in two Loblolly Pine stands within the plantation: a 20-year old mid-rotation stand (US-NC2), and a recent clear-cut (US-NC3). The modeled ET agreed well with observations at both sites, with root-mean square errors of for NC2 is 0.99 mm d-1 and 1.07 mm d-1 for NC3, with relative errors on the order of 20% of the peak observed summer ET rates. Analyses show that seasonal water use patterns vary significantly with stand age, with higher rates of ET mid-season from mid- and late rotation stands in comparison with younger stands, but little difference in water use during the dormant season. The dataset also shows that pixels with natural forest had higher ET than the managed plantation and cropped areas. Our study demonstrates the capability of the multi-scale ET model to estimate daily field-scale ET over forested landscape, providing useful information for local water resource management.


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