Land surface temperature (LST) is a crucial parameter that reflects land–atmosphere
interaction and has thus attracted wide interest from geoscientists. Owing to the rapid …

Agriculture provides for the most basic needs of humankind: food and fiber. The introduction
of new farming techniques in the past century (eg, during the Green Revolution) has helped …

Green fractional vegetation cover (fc) is an important phenotypic factor in the fields of
agriculture, forestry, and ecology. Spatially explicit monitoring of fc via relative vegetation …

Satellite remote sensing technology has been widely used to estimate surface soil moisture.
Numerous efforts have been devoted to develop global soil moisture products. However …

Soil moisture (SM) is an essential parameter for understanding the interactions and
feedbacks between the atmosphere and the Earth's surface through energy and water …

Evapotranspiration is a major component of the global water cycle and provides a critical
nexus between terrestrial water, carbon and surface energy exchanges. Evapotranspiration …

Evapotranspiration (ET) from the land surface is an important component of the terrestrial
hydrological cycle. Since the advent of Earth observation by satellites, various models have …

Abstract The “trapezoid” or “triangle” model constitutes the most popular approach to remote
sensing (RS) of surface soil moisture based on coupled thermal (ie, land surface …

Environmental monitoring with satellite data is facilitated by frequent observations at a fine
spatial scale. As land surface temperature (LST) is one environmental key variable, we …

This review surveys the basic theories, observational methods, satellite algorithms, and land
surface models for terrestrial evapotranspiration, E (or λE, ie, latent heat flux), including a …