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This study evaluates the RS-PT feature space method over an arid and semi-arid region in northwest China using satellite data from the moderate-resolution space-borne sensor Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR), the observations from the  high-resolution airborne sensor Wide-angle Infrared Dual-mode line\/area Array Scanner (WiDAS) and ground measurements of heat fluxes collected in summer 2008. The results show that the mean difference for latent heat flux (LE) estimates resulting from different domain sizes is 69.5 W\/m2. When using high-resolution images from airborne measurements, the dry boundary is strongly affected by the pixels of impervious surfaces, which lead to a mean difference of 15.36 W\/m2 for LE estimates. In addition, the physically based Surface Energy Balance Index (SEBI) model is used to analyze the accuracy of dry\/wet boundaries in the RS-PT method. Compared with the SEBI-estimated relative evaporative fraction (\u039br), the RS-PT method underestimated \u039br by ~0.11. For the RS-PT method, the uncertainty in the determination of the dry\/wet boundaries has a significant impact on the accuracy of the ET estimate, not only depending on the size of the area to build the feature space, but also on the land covers.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs70100447","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,12,31]],"date-time":"2014-12-31T08:49:33Z","timestamp":1420015773000},"page":"447-466","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["On Uncertainties of the Priestley-Taylor\/LST-Fc Feature Space Method to Estimate Evapotranspiration: Case Study in an Arid\/Semiarid Region in Northwest China"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Zhansheng","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"given":"Li","family":"Jia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"},{"name":"Joint Center for Global Change Studies, Beijing 100875, China"}]},{"given":"Jing","family":"Lu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,12,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"421","DOI":"10.1007\/s10712-008-9037-z","article-title":"Estimating land surface evaporation: A review of methods using remotely sensed surface temperature data","volume":"29","author":"Kalma","year":"2008","journal-title":"Surv. 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