Abstract
The processes of land use and occupation generate interventions in the natural ecosystems making them susceptible to reactions, such as changes in the processes that govern water cycling, emphasizing the importance of monitoring the evapotranspiration behavior. In this sense, the objective of this study was to verify the applicability of the evaporation product originated by the MODIS sensor to a pasture area, from 2003 to 2010, at Fazenda Nossa Senhora in the municipality of Ouro Preto do Oeste - Rondônia. Were used evapotranspiration data from the MODIS (Terra / Aqua) sensor, estimated by MOD16 algorithm, and micrometeorological tower located in the pasture area, generated by eddy covariance system. It was verified that for ET Eddy x ET MOD16 (Quality control – QC 0/8) data set, ET MOD16 (QC 0/8) data showed evapotranspiration values above those of ET Eddy and with a greater amplitude. A linear correlation between the study datasets was not identified, however, seasonal variations are captured by product, showing good approximation with ET Eddy data, especially in the transition periods.
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