Articles | Volume 28, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-3799-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-3799-2024
Technical note
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22 Aug 2024
Technical note |  | 22 Aug 2024

Technical note: Investigating the potential for smartphone-based monitoring of evapotranspiration and land surface energy-balance partitioning

Adriaan J. Teuling, Belle Holthuis, and Jasper F. D. Lammers

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The understanding of spatio-temporal variability of evapotranspiration (ET) is currently limited by a lack of measurement techniques that are low cost and that can be applied anywhere at any time. Here we show that evapotranspiration can be estimated accurately using observations made by smartphone sensors, suggesting that smartphone-based ET monitoring could provide a realistic and low-cost alternative for real-time ET estimation in the field.