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Research Article

A new method for estimating of evapotranspiration and surface soil moisture from optical and thermal infrared measurements: the simplified triangle

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Pages 7716-7729 | Received 03 Nov 2018, Accepted 19 Mar 2019, Published online: 18 Apr 2019

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