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2. Estimation of evapotranspiration from remote sensing in West Africa : toward a better knowledge of this key variable for the region
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Allies, Aubin, Hydrosciences Montpellier (HSM), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Montpellier, Bernard Cappelaere, and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Evapotranspiration ,Télédétection ,Afrique de l'Ouest ,West Africa ,Cycles de l’eau et de l’énergie ,Remote sensing ,[SDU.STU.HY]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology ,Évapotranspiration ,Water and energy cycles - Abstract
West Africa is particularly vulnerable to climate and human-induced changes, exerting increasing pressure on water and plant resources. Sound management of the latter requires substantial scientific progress. In particular, it is essential to better understand energy and matter exchanges through the surface-atmosphere continuum, which are a major driver of the hydrological cycle and of vegetation development. In this respect, evapotranspiration is a key variable, as most of precipitation returns to the atmosphere by evapotranspiration and as it couples the water and energy cycles. In West Africa, current knowledge of this process is still limited because it is mainly based on field measurements that are representative of small spatial scales, or on land surface models that would require considerably more data than available in this region. In this context, this thesis work aims at improving our knowledge of the spatiotemporal variability of evapotranspiration, by analyzing the potential of remote sensing to estimate evapotranspiration in West Africa. The proposed approach is based on an inter-comparison of available remote sensing evapotranspiration products and on the proposal of a new method to generate new estimation products. The study was carried out over three mesoscale sites (~ 104 km2) providing a sample of the eco-climatic conditions encountered in West Africa, namely from North to South: the North-Sahel (in East-Central Mali), the South-Sahel (in South-West Niger) and the Sudanian zone (in North Benin). An improved remote sensing method for estimating daily evapotranspiration and its epistemic uncertainty named EVASPA S-SEBI Sahel (E3S) was developed. E3S was applied to the three study sites using data from the MODIS sensors onboard TERRA and AQUA satellites. Daily evapotranspiration estimates were evaluated against pluriannual observations acquired by the AMMA-CATCH Observatory. This study highlights the potential of E3S for estimating daily evapotranspiration in West Africa. However, these estimates are still subject to hazards of satellite measurements (image quality, cloud cover, large satellite view angle) and are therefore discontinuous. This thesis work also proposes new methods for reconstructing continuous daily evapotranspiration series by the combination of multi-resolution and multi-source estimations. The study shows the capabilities of these reconstruction approaches compared to the standard interpolation methods usually found in the literature. In particular, the proposed approaches allow better depicting the response of terrestrial surfaces to soil drying sequences between rainfall events. The newly generated evapotranspiration products were included in the product inter-comparison together with eight other products available in West Africa at various spatial and temporal resolutions. These products were evaluated at different spatial and temporal scales against local measurements and spatially distributed simulations by twenty land surface models from the ALMIP2 experiment. This study highlights the high inter-product variability especially in the Sahel. It also emphasizes the importance of taking into account information related to water stress in the generation of evapotranspiration products. The kilometric resolution of E3S products gives them a clear advantage in terms of description of the spatial variability of evapotranspiration flux compared to other coarse resolution products. The newly generated products show clear potential for future eco-hydrological and hydrogeological studies in the Sahel.; L’Afrique de l’Ouest est particulièrement exposée aux changements climatiques et anthropiques qui exercent une pression croissante sur les ressources hydriques et végétales, dont la bonne gestion constitue un enjeu scientifique majeur. Plus particulièrement, il devient indispensable de mieux comprendre les échanges d’énergie et de matière au sein du continuum surface-atmosphère qui régissent une bonne partie du cycle hydrologique et du développement de la végétation. À cet égard, l’évapotranspiration constitue une variable clé à l’interface surface-atmosphère car elle recycle la plus grande partie des précipitations vers l’atmosphère et assure le couplage des cycles de l’eau et de l’énergie. En Afrique de l'Ouest, les connaissances actuelles sur ce processus restent limitées car elles reposent principalement sur des mesures de terrain représentatives de petites échelles spatiales, ou sur des modèles de surface complexes, dont l’importance des jeux de données qu’ils requièrent limite leur application. Dans ce contexte, ce travail de thèse vise à améliorer notre connaissance de la variabilité spatiotemporelle de l'évapotranspiration, en analysant le potentiel de la télédétection pour son estimation en Afrique de l'Ouest. L'approche proposée repose sur une comparaison des produits d'évapotranspiration par télédétection disponibles et la proposition d’une nouvelle méthode permettant la génération de nouveaux produits. L’étude a été menée sur trois sites de méso-échelle (~ 104 km2) fournissant un échantillon des conditions éco-climatiques rencontrées en Afrique de l’Ouest, avec du Nord au Sud : le Nord-Sahel (au centre-est Mali), le Sud-Sahel (au sud-ouest Niger) et la zone soudanienne (au nord Bénin). Une méthode d’estimation de l’évapotranspiration journalière par télédétection et de son incertitude épistémique, nommée EVASPA S-SEBI Sahel (E3S), a été élaborée. E3S a été appliqué sur les trois sites d’étude à partir de données issues des capteurs MODIS à bord des satellites TERRA et AQUA. Les estimations journalières d’évapotranspiration ont été évaluées par rapport aux observations pluriannuelles acquises par l’Observatoire AMMA-CATCH. Cette étude souligne le potentiel d’E3S pour l’estimation de l’évapotranspiration journalière en Afrique de l’Ouest. Toutefois, ces estimations restent soumises aux aléas de la mesure satellite (qualité des images, couvert nuageux, angle de visée trop grand) et sont donc ponctuées de lacunes. Ces travaux de thèse proposent également de nouvelles méthodes de reconstruction de séries d’évapotranspiration journalières via la combinaison d’estimations multi-résolution et multi-source. Cette étude montre la pertinence de ces approches de reconstruction par rapport aux méthodes d’interpolation standards utilisées dans la littérature. Les approches proposées permettent notamment de mieux retranscrire la réponse des surfaces terrestres aux séquences d’assèchement du sol entre deux épisodes pluvieux. Les nouveaux produits générés ont été introduit dans l’exercice d’inter-comparaison incluant huit autres produits disponibles en Afrique de l’Ouest à diverses résolutions spatio-temporelles. Ces produits ont été évalués à différentes échelles spatiales et temporelles par rapport aux mesures locales et aux simulations spatialisées de vingt modèles de surface générées dans le cadre de l’expérience ALMIP2. Cette étude met en évidence la forte variabilité inter-produit, en particulier au Sahel. Elle souligne par ailleurs l’importance de la prise en compte d’une information liée au stress hydrique dans la génération des produits d’évapotranspiration. La résolution kilométrique des produits E3S leur fournit un avantage indéniable concernant la description de la variabilité spatiale des flux d’évapotranspiration par rapport à d’autres produits à faible résolution. Les produits nouvellement générés présentent un potentiel évident pour de futures études à caractère éco-hydrologique et hydrogéologique au Sahel.
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3. Estimating evapotranspiration from remote sensing: the case of Sahelian Africa
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Allies, Aubin, Demarty, Jerome, Olioso, Albert, Issoufou, Hassane Bil-Assanou, Maïnassara, Ibrahim, Chazarin, Jean-Philippe, Oï, Monique, Velluet, Cécile, Hydrosciences Montpellier (HSM), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Montpellier (UM), Environnement Méditerranéen et Modélisation des Agro-Hydrosystèmes (EMMAH), Avignon Université (AU)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Biology Department (Science Faculty), Universidade do Porto, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Ouest]), IAHS., Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidade do Porto [Porto], Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Universidade do Porto = University of Porto
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remote sensing ,MODIS ,cycle de l'eau ,resolution spatiale optimale ,Sahel ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,télédétection ,évapotranspiration ,water cycle ,Evapotranspiration ,EVASPA ,zone sahélienne - Abstract
Allies A., J. Demarty, A. Olioso, H. B.-A. Issoufou, I. Maïnassara, J.-P. Chazarin, M. Oï, C. Velluet, M. Bahir, B. Cappelaere, 2017. Estimating evapotranspiration from remote sensing: the case of Sahelian Africa. Abstract IAHS2017-164. IAHS 2017 Scientific Assembly, 10 – 14 July 2017, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. [Présentation orale par A. Allies] http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/IAHS2017/IAHS2017-164.pdf Allies A., J. Demarty, A. Olioso, H. B.-A. Issoufou, I. Maïnassara, J.-P. Chazarin, M. Oï, C. Velluet, M. Bahir, B. Cappelaere, 2017. Estimating evapotranspiration from remote sensing: the case of Sahelian Africa. Abstract IAHS2017-164. IAHS 2017 Scientific Assembly, 10 – 14 July 2017, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. [Présentation orale par A. Allies] http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/IAHS2017/IAHS2017-164.pdfAllies A., J. Demarty, A. Olioso, H. B.-A. Issoufou, I. Maïnassara, J.-P. Chazarin, M. Oï, C. Velluet, M. Bahir, B. Cappelaere, 2017. Estimating evapotranspiration from remote sensing: the case of Sahelian Africa. Abstract IAHS2017-164. IAHS 2017 Scientific Assembly, 10 – 14 July 2017, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. [Présentation orale par A. Allies]http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/IAHS2017/IAHS2017-164.pdf; Estimating evapotranspiration from remote sensing: the case of Sahelian Africa. . IAHS 2017 Scientific Assembly
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- 2017
4. A remote sensing data fusion method for continuous daily evapotranspiration mapping at kilometric scale in Sahelian areas.
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Allies, Aubin, Olioso, Albert, Cappelaere, Bernard, Boulet, Gilles, Etchanchu, Jordi, Barral, Hélène, Bouzou Moussa, Ibrahim, Chazarin, Jean-Philippe, Delogu, Emilie, Issoufou, Hassane Bil-Assanou, Mainassara, Ibrahim, Oï, Monique, and Demarty, Jérôme
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MULTISENSOR data fusion , *MESOSCALE convective complexes , *REMOTE sensing , *EVAPOTRANSPIRATION , *CLOUDINESS , *SOLAR radiation - Abstract
• Accurate gridded evapotranspiration estimates are lacking in the Sahel. • New fusion approach for gridded 1-km continuous daily evapotranspiration estimates. • Evaluation against field observations and LSM simulations over 4 years. • The fusion method strongly enhanced evapotranspiration estimates during cloudy days. • The fusion approach outperformed classical interpolation methods. Thermal infrared (TIR) remote sensing-based ET estimates are very appealing for a wide range of scientific applications in hydrology. However, they are prone to infrequency due to satellite revisit interval and cloud cover. Temporal interpolation techniques or multi-resolution and multi-frequency data fusion approach have thus recently been studied to provide continuous ET estimates. It has been already shown that the interest of temporal interpolation techniques is limited to short return interval that is troublesome in Sahelian regions where mesoscale convective systems linked to the West African Monsoon (WAM) renders unusable most of TIR images during the rainy season. Here we developed a data fusion approach to provide remote sensing-based continuous daily ET estimates at kilometric resolution in Sahelian areas. The proposed algorithm fill gaps in MODIS-based ET estimates from EVASPA S-SEBI Sahel (E3S) using the Global Land Evaporation: the Amsterdam Methodology (GLEAM) product and/or ET estimates from a simple parametric model for typical Sahelian ecosystems as a normalized basis. The fusion algorithm is evaluated at the pixel scale against eddy-covariance measurements and simulations of a locally calibrated and validated land surface model (LSM) on a millet crop and a fallow of shrubby savannah in the southwest of the Republic of Niger. Consistency of the fusion approach is also evaluated at mesoscale by comparing it with a set of 20 regional LSMs. Globally both level of comparison highlight the very good agreement of ET estimates based on the fusion approach with both in situ measurements and LSMs simulations. We also show the benefit of such a fusion approach compared to linear temporal interpolation techniques of the ratio between ET and either incoming solar radiation or reference evapotranspiration. The main benefits are observed during the first months of the rainy season in the depiction of the surface response to rainfall events and consecutive drying up of the surface soil layer. We suggest that such a fusion approach could be later used in disaggregation chain to enhance field scaled ET estimates by the combination of coarse, moderate and high resolution remote sensing-based ET estimates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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5. Evapotranspiration Estimation in the Sahel Using a New Ensemble-Contextual Method.
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Allies, Aubin, Demarty, Jérôme, Olioso, Albert, Bouzou Moussa, Ibrahim, Issoufou, Hassane Bil-Assanou, Velluet, Cécile, Bahir, Malik, Maïnassara, Ibrahim, Oï, Monique, Chazarin, Jean-Philippe, and Cappelaere, Bernard
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EVAPOTRANSPIRATION , *STANDARD deviations , *EPISTEMIC uncertainty , *SHRUBLANDS - Abstract
In many tropical areas, evapotranspiration is the most important but least known component of the water cycle. An innovative method, named E3S (for EVASPA S-SEBI Sahel), was developed to provide spatially-distributed estimates of daily actual evapotranspiration (ETd) from remote sensing data in the Sahel. This new method combines the strengths of a contextual approach that is used to estimate the evaporative fraction (EF) from surface temperature vs. albedo scatterograms and of an ensemble approach that derives ETd estimates from a weighted average of evapotranspiration estimated from several EF methods. In this work, the two combined approaches were derived from the simplified surface energy balance index (S-SEBI) model and the EVapotranspiration Assessment from SPAce (EVASPA) tool. Main innovative aspects concern (i) ensemble predictions of ETd through the implementation of a dynamic weighting scheme of several evapotranspiration estimations, (ii) epistemic uncertainty of the estimation of ETd from the analysis of the variability of evapotranspiration estimates, and (iii) a new cloud filtering method that significantly improves the detection of cloud edges that negatively affect EF determination. E3S was applied to MODIS/TERRA and AQUA datasets acquired during the 2005–2008 period over the mesoscale AMMA-CATCH (Analyse Multidisciplinaire de la Mousson Africaine—Couplage de l'Atmosphère Tropicale et du Cycle Hydrologique) observatory in South-West Niger. E3S estimates of instantaneous and daily available energy, evaporative fraction, and evapotranspiration were evaluated at a local scale based on two field-monitored plots representing the two main ecosystem types in the area—a millet crop and a fallow savannah bush. In addition to these ground-based observations, the local scale evaluation was performed against continuous simulations by a locally-calibrated soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer model for the two plots. The RMSE (root mean square error) from this comparison for E3S's ETd estimates from combined AQUA/TERRA sources was 0.5 mm·day−1, and the determination coefficient was 0.90. E3S significantly improved representation of the evapotranspiration seasonality, compared with a classical implementation of S-SEBI or with the original EVASPA's non-weighted ensemble scheme. At the mesoscale, ETd estimates were obtained with an average epistemic uncertainty of 0.4 mm·day−1. Comparisons with the reference 0.25°-resolution GLEAM (global land evaporation Amsterdam model) product showed good agreement. These results suggested that E3S could be used to produce reliable continuous regional estimations at a kilometric resolution, consistent with land and water management requirements in the Sahel. Moreover, all these innovations could be easily transposed to other contextual approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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