Table 4.
Statistical metrics of comparison between measured (closed) and modeled ET (mm day−1) obtained from both Landsat-only and Landsat + ECOSTRESS + VIIRSI/S2 fusion at daily and weekly timesteps over the 3-year study period
| Domain | Tower | Timescale | N | Landsat-only | Landsat + ECO + VIIRSI/S2 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAE | RMSE | MBE | %RE | MAE | RMSE | MBE | %RE | ||||
| Lodi | SLM001 | Daily | 722 | 0.52 | 0.69 | 0.24 | 20.6 | 0.55 | 0.75 | 0.29 | 21.8 |
| Weekly | 90 | 0.44 | 0.56 | 0.26 | 16.6 | 0.49 | 0.63 | 0.32 | 18.2 | ||
| SLM002 | Daily | 618 | 0.60 | 0.80 | 0.26 | 22.1 | 0.69 | 0.94 | 0.41 | 25.1 | |
| Weekly | 76 | 0.54 | 0.72 | 0.26 | 18.6 | 0.62 | 0.87 | 0.43 | 21.1 | ||
| USBi1 | Daily | 1044 | 1.19 | 1.42 | − 0.77 | 37.5 | 1.08 | 1.29 | − 0.69 | 34.2 | |
| Weekly | 146 | 1.07 | 1.21 | − 0.75 | 33.3 | 0.95 | 1.07 | − 0.67 | 29.8 | ||
| USBi2 | Daily | 985 | 1.27 | 1.64 | − 0.73 | 40.8 | 1.27 | 1.62 | − 0.77 | 40.8 | |
| Weekly | 136 | 1.18 | 1.50 | − 0.74 | 37.0 | 1.18 | 1.47 | − 0.78 | 37.1 | ||
| Cloverdale | BAR012 | Daily | 653 | 0.59 | 0.78 | 0 | 24.1 | 0.57 | 0.75 | 0.06 | 23.6 |
| Weekly | 76 | 0.51 | 0.63 | 0 | 20.0 | 0.47 | 0.57 | 0.06 | 18.3 | ||
| Madera | RIP760 | Daily | 521 | 0.67 | 0.87 | − 0.20 | 14.7 | 0.67 | 0.87 | − 0.10 | 14.8 |
| Weekly | 67 | 0.50 | 0.63 | − 0.16 | 10.5 | 0.49 | 0.63 | − 0.05 | 10.2 | ||
| All | All sites | Daily | 4543 | 0.87 | 1.18 | − 0.28 | 28.7 | 0.86 | 1.15 | − 0.23 | 28.4 |
| Weekly | 591 | 0.79 | 1.05 | − 0.30 | 25.0 | 0.78 | 1.01 | − 0.24 | 24.4 | ||