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Evapotranspiration in the Upper Klamath Basin for April 2013
The evapotranspiration (ET) datasets were created under contract for this study by the University of Idaho. A high-resolution remote sensing technique known as Mapping Evapotranspiration at High Resolution and Internalized Calibration (METRIC) was used to create estimates of the spatial distribution of ET. The METRIC technique uses thermal infrared Landsat imagery to quantify actual evapotranspiration at a 30-meter resolution that can be related to individual irrigated fields. Because evaporation uses heat energy, ground surfaces with large ET rates are left cooler as a result of ET than ground surfaces that have less ET. As a consequence, irrigated fields appear in the Landsat images as cooler than nonirrigated fields. Products produced from this study include total seasonal and total monthly (April-October) actual evapotranspiration maps for 2013.
| Author(s) | Wenguang Zhao, Richard Allen, Ricardo Trezza, Clarence Robison |
| Publication Date | 2015-12-17 |
| Beginning Date of Data | 2013-04-01 |
| Ending Date of Data | 2013-04-30 |
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| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F72J68ZW |
| Citation | Zhao, W., Allen, R., Trezza, R., and Robison, C., 2015, Evapotranspiration in the Upper Klamath Basin for April 2013: U.S. Geological Survey data release, http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F72J68ZW. |
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| Metadata Date | 2020-08-27 |
| Related Publication | There was no related primary publication associated with this data release. |
| Citations of these data | No citations of these data are known at this time. |
| Access | public |
| License | http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/ |
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