Amazon hydrology from space: scientific advances and future challenges

AC Fassoni‐Andrade, AS Fleischmann… - Reviews of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As the largest river basin on Earth, the Amazon is of major importance to the world's climate
and water resources. Over the past decades, advances in satellite‐based remote sensing …

Land use and land cover changes and their impacts on surface-atmosphere interactions in Brazil: A systematic review

CB Caballero, A Ruhoff, T Biggs - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Major land use and land cover changes (LULCC) have taken place in Brazil, including large
scale conversion of forest to agriculture. LULCC alters surface-atmosphere interactions …

Long-term monitoring of evapotranspiration using the SEBAL algorithm and Google Earth Engine cloud computing

L Laipelt, RHB Kayser, AS Fleischmann… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Accurate estimation of evapotranspiration (ET) is essential for several applications in water
resources management. ET models using remote sensing data have flourished in recent …

Using remote sensing to quantify the joint effects of climate and land use/land cover changes on the caatinga biome of northeast Brazilian

AMRF Jardim, GN Araújo Júnior, MV Silva, A Santos… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Caatinga biome, located in the Brazilian semi-arid region, is the most populous semi-arid
region in the world, causing intensification in land degradation and loss of biodiversity over …

Seasonal ecosystem productivity in a seasonally dry tropical forest (caatinga) using flux tower measurements and remote sensing data

GB Costa, KR Mendes, LB Viana, GV Almeida… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Caatinga dry forest encompasses 11% of the total continental territory of Brazil.
Nevertheless, most research on the relationship between phenology and ecosystem …

Impacts of land-surface heterogeneities and Amazonian deforestation on the wet season onset in southern Amazon

JP Sierra, JC Espinoza, C Junquas, S Wongchuig… - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
Continued Amazonian deforestation perturbs the surface turbulent fluxes which are
important for building the conditions for the wet season onset in the southern Amazon. This …

WUE and CO2 Estimations by Eddy Covariance and Remote Sensing in Different Tropical Biomes

GB Costa, CM Santos e Silva, KR Mendes… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The analysis of gross primary production (GPP) is crucial to better understand CO2
exchanges between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere, while the quantification of …

geeSEBAL-MODIS: Continental-scale evapotranspiration based on the surface energy balance for South America

BC de Andrade, L Laipelt, A Fleischmann… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Monitoring actual evapotranspiration (ET) is critical for the accurate assessment of water
availability and water resources management, especially in areas with dry climates and …

A comprehensive strategy for modeling watershed restoration priority areas under epistemic uncertainty: A case study in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil

I Possantti, R Barbedo, M Kronbauer, W Collischonn… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydrological models are useful to support ecosystem services restoration. However, when
planning the expansion of Nature-based Solutions and Payments for Ecosystem Services …

Optimized algorithm for evapotranspiration retrieval via remote sensing

W Wolff, JP Francisco, DL Flumignan, FR Marin… - Agricultural Water …, 2022 - Elsevier
Many algorithms for surface energy balance (SEB) based on remote sensing (RS) have
been advanced to determine evapotranspiration (ET). These algorithms were developed for …