A Spatial and Temporal Correlation between Remotely Sensing Evapotranspiration with Land Use and Land Cover

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The topic of the article is interesting and stimulating. Here you can find my comments:

OVERALL: - Please, enlarge and re-arrange font sizes to guide the reader properly in all sections. All figures must be composed of HD images. It is mandatory to improve the scientific quality of the whole manuscript.

-      Please, pay attention to the JOURNAL TEMPLATE within the entire manuscript: in all sections, including tables, references, captions, units, equations, and Figures.

INTRODUCTION: Please, consider in the scientific background of your study the value of uncertainty quantification in post-processing of image processing and analysis associated with water resources management (i.e.,

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METHODS: Please, insert a Figure for each sub-section. This could improve considerably the clarity of your manuscript.

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Reviewer 2 Report

I reviewed the article and must say that even some findings are promising; the article lacks novelty and some key representation of the results. 

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Reviewer 3 Report

Paper is interesting but some major revision need before publication.

1) Author should improve the English Lang. the paper, remove the grammar errors in paper.

2) Author should clearly  explained method of paper and prepare the flowchart.

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Reviewer 4 Report

Remotely Sensing Evapotranspiration and Its Spatial and Temporal Correlation with Land Use and Land Cover

Dear authors,

First I checked this manuscript for Plagiarism via Turnitin and found the scores are less than 20%. Therefore, this can be moved to the next stage of review.

Please see the following my comments are try to improve your manuscript.

Abstract - What is the research gap for this manuscript? Why did you want to do this research work? That is very missing in the abstract.

What was the reason for you to only go with 5 years whereas you could have done it to more years?

Check line 175 and see the formatting.  Ditto at 211.

Figure 3 is meaningless with 5 years.

I would like to see a combined Results and Discussion section. In addition, an extended discussion with a comparative analysis would make your manuscript stronger.

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The article has been improved. Few corrections are still needed:

INTRODUCTION: Please, consider in the scientific background of your study the value of both advanced experimental and modeling analysis of the prediction of natural phenomena (i.e.,

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Author Response

We would like to appreciate the reviewer for the valuable and useful comments. We incorporated all the comments. Accordingly, the manuscript has been improved considerably.

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Reviewer 2 Report

Manuscript has been revised adequately and I congratulate authors for their efforts

Author Response

We would like to appreciate the reviewer for the valuable and useful comments. We incorporated all the comments. Accordingly, the manuscript has been improved considerably.

Reviewer 3 Report

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Reviewer 4 Report

I still would like to know why authors have used only 5 years for this analysis whereas they could have done this for at least 10-15 years with available LandSat images. A justification would be needed.

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Round 3

Reviewer 3 Report

Before Publication some suggested references added, I have accepted the article for publication with minor revision.

Author Response

Your kind consideration is greatly appreciated. In the revised version, we have added some inputs about the novelty of this study compared with similar previous studies in the conclusion section.

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