In this video I’m going to introduce you to the free MODIS Evapotranspiration product, MOD16. We will be using this data in the next video to calculate Evapotranspiration over a catchment. The purpose of this video is to give you some important background information.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:23 Evaporation, Transpiration & Evapotranspiration
01:18 Potential & Actual Evapotranspiration
01:57 What is MODIS?
02:22 MOD16 ET product
02:58 MOD16 ET algorithm
03:31 MOD16 ET accuracy
04:14 MOD16 ET global data, resolution & time series
04:37 MOD16 data products
05:52 MOD16A2GF
06:15 8Day Composite
07:08 AppEEARS
07:22 Concluding remarks

Link to the presentation: https://bit.ly/3jSSXJA
Link to this YouTube video:    • Introduction to MODIS Evapotranspirat...  
Link to MOD16A2GF Version 6 Web site: https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod1...
Link to the AppEEARS website: https://lpdaacsvc.cr.usgs.gov/appeears/

Further reading:
MODIS Global Terrestrial Evapotranspiration (ET) Product (NASA MOD16A2/A3) Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document Collection 5 , Qiaozhen Mu, Maosheng Zhao, Steven W. Running (2013). Available online: https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/documents/93/...

Link to other videos on Water Balance of River Basins:
   • Water Balance of River Basins  

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