Bhaskar J. Choudhury

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between transpiration coefficient and vegetation indices for wheat has been analyzed using a heat balance and a radiative transfer model, and the observed variations of crop (wheat) height, leaf area index, and weather conditions for 30 days at Phoenix (Arizona), together with the reflectances of different types of soil in wet and dry states, are used in the simulation.

TL;DR: In this article, a two-stream approximation to the radiative transfer equation is used to calculate the vegetation indices (simple ratio and normalized difference), the fraction of incident photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) absorbed by the canopy, and the daily mean canopy net photosynthesis under clear-sky conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, a net-radiation-based empirical model for soil heat flux (G) is analyzed for inclusion in a canopy-temperature-based energy balance equation to estimate evaporation from a growing wheat crop.

TL;DR: In this article, the suitability of two tropical rainfall measuring mission (TRMM)-based precipitation products for hydrological land data assimilation applications was evaluated against ground-based rain gauge-only and gauge-corrected Doppler radar measurements.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used infrared thermometric observations collected from an aircraft to estimate surface temperatures for a natural vegetative surface in Owens Valley, California, with infrared thermometrically.