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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-8-1397-2014</article-id>
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<article-title>A Spatio-temporal disaggregation method to derive time series of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and Land Surface Temperature at fine spatial resolution</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Bindhu</surname>
<given-names>V. M.</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Narasimhan</surname>
<given-names>B.</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>SMBS, VIT University Chennai campus, India</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>EWRE Division, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai-36, India</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>23</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2014</year>
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<volume>XL-8</volume>
<fpage>1397</fpage>
<lpage>1401</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2014 V. M. Bindhu</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2014</copyright-year>
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<p>Estimation of evapotranspiration (ET) from remote sensing based energy balance models have evolved as a promising tool in the
field of water resources management. Performance of energy balance models and reliability of ET estimates is decided by the
availability of remote sensing data at high spatial and temporal resolutions. However huge tradeoff in the spatial and temporal
resolution of satellite images act as major constraints in deriving ET at fine spatial and temporal resolution using remote sensing
based energy balance models. Hence a need exists to derive finer resolution data from the available coarse resolution imagery, which
could be applied to deliver ET estimates at scales to the range of individual fields. The current study employed a spatio-temporal
disaggregation method to derive fine spatial resolution (60 m) images of NDVI by integrating the information in terms of crop
phenology derived from time series of MODIS NDVI composites with fine resolution NDVI derived from a single AWiFS data
acquired during the season. The disaggregated images of NDVI at fine resolution were used to disaggregate MODIS LST data at
960 m resolution to the scale of Landsat LST data at 60 m resolution. The robustness of the algorithm was verified by comparison of
the disaggregated NDVI and LST with concurrent NDVI and LST images derived from Landsat ETM+. The results showed that
disaggregated NDVI and LST images compared well with the concurrent NDVI and LST derived from ETM+ at fine resolution with
a high Nash Sutcliffe Efficiency and low Root Mean Square Error. The proposed disaggregation method proves promising in
generating time series of ET at fine resolution for effective water management.</p>
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