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Title:   Author  item
                                            NIETO, H. - Institute For Sustainable Agricultureitem
                                            Kustas, William

                                                         - *Bill*item
                                            TORRES, A. - Utah State Universityitem
                                            ELARAB, M. - Utah State Universityitem
                                            SONG, L. - Beijing Normal Universityitem
                                            Alfieri, Josephitem
                                            Prueger, Johnitem
                                            McKee, Lynnitem
                                            Anderson, Marthaitem
                                            ALSINA, MIMAR - E & J Gallo Wineryitem
                                            JENSEN, A. - Utah State Universityitem
                                            MCKEE, M. - Utah State University
  Submitted to: Meeting Abstract
                                    Publication Type: Abstract Only
                                    Publication Acceptance Date: 10/2/2015
                                    Publication  Date: 12/5/2015
                                    Citation: Nieto, H., Kustas, W.P., Torres, A., Elarab, M., Song, L., Alfieri, J.G., Prueger, J.H., Mckee, L.G., Anderson, M.C., Alsina, M., Jensen, A., Mckee, M. 2015. Advances in the Two Source Energy Balance (TSEB) model using very high resolution remote sensing data in vineyards [abstract]. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/61495.Interpretive Summary:
                                Technical Abstract: The thermal-based Two Source Energy Balance (TSEB) model partitions the water and energy fluxes from vegetation and soil components providing thus the ability for estimating soil evaporation (E) and canopy transpiration (T) separately. However, it is crucial for ET partitioning to retrieve reliable estimates of canopy and soil temperatures as well as the net radiation partitioning ('Rn), as the latter determines the available energy for water and heat exchange from soil and canopy sources. These two factors become especially relevant in agricultural areas, with vegetation clumped along rows and hence only partially covering the soil surface for much of the growing season, and with extreme effects on radiation and temperature partitioning in vineyards and orchards. To better understand the effects of strongly clumped vegetation on radiation and land surface temperature (LST) partitioning very high spatial resolution remote sensing data acquired from an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) were collected over vineyards in California, as part of The Grape Remote sensing and Atmospheric Profile and Evapotranspiration eXperiment (GRAPEX). The multi-temporal observations from the UAS and very high pixel resolution permitted the estimation of reliable soil and leaf temperatures using a contextual algorithm based on the inverse relationship between LST and a vegetation index. An improvement in the algorithm estimating the effective leaf area index explicitly developed for vine rows and 'Rn using the 4SAIL Radiative Transfer Model is shown. The revisions to the TSEB model are evaluated with in situ measurements of energy fluxes and transmitted solar radiation. Results show that the modifications to the TSEB resulted in closer agreement with the ground measurements compared to the original TSEB model formulations. The significant advantages in using very high resolution remote sensing data for ET monitoring in agricultural regions having strongly clumped vegetation will be discussed.


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