Land surface temperature (LST) and land albedo (LSA) are the two key regional global climate-controlling parameters; assessing their behavior would likely result in a better understanding of appropriate adaptation strategies to mitigate consequences climate change. This study was conducted explore spatiotemporal variability LST LSA across different use/cover (LULC) classes northwest Iran. To do...

Soil moisture is generally regarded as the limiting factors in rangeland production. Although many studies have been conducted to estimate soil moisture in semiarid areas, there is little information on mountainous rangelands in west of Iran. The present study aims to investigate the soil moisture estimation in rangelands as compared to the other land uses over a mountainous area in central Zag...

Different methods have been developed to estimate evapotranspiration from remote sensing data. Among them direct methods based upon the energy balance equation and using thermal infrared (TIR) data like the simplified relationship. This method has been applied for various situations: from small spatial scale using airborne TIR images to continental scale with NOAA data. More recently indirect e...

This paper compares evapotranspiration estimates from two complementary satellite sensors - NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and ESA's ENVISAT Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) over the savannah area of the Volta basin in West Africa. This was achieved through solving for evapotranspiration on the basis of the regional energy balance equation, which wa...