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Fig. 8. Three evapotranspiration maps of the area around the lidar at various times on 27 June 2002 during SMEX02. Red indicates areas of higher evapotranspiration and blues are lowest. To show the variability of the fields, the color scales are different for each time. Soybean was planted to the south of the lidar and corn to the north. The dividing line is the fence that can be seen in the photograph just below the lidar location. Also shown is an aerial three-band false color composite of canopy reflectance (near infrared [red color], red band [green color] and green band [blue color]) of the site, at the same scale, for comparison. Red colors are indicative of greater amounts of biomass.
