ABSTRACT. Accurate partitioning of the evaporation (E) and transpiration (T) components of evapotranspiration (ET) invaporation (E) and transpiration (T) are important pathways of water flux away from irrigated crop surfaces. In cropping systems, biomass production and economic yield are closely related to T from the plant canopy, whereas E flux is from the soil beneath the crop or from the canopy surface following rain or irrigation, which do not directly contribute to yield production. Therefore, increases in crop water productivity usually seek to minimize E relative to ET, so that the T/ET ratio is maximized (Doorenbos and Kassam, 1979). Because E and T are difficult to measure separately, they are often composited as evapotranspiration (ET). The relative contributions of E and T to ET are nonetheless important to understanding water flux processes of vegetation, particularly crops, where water is a primary constraint to production (Newman et al., 2006;Kool et al., 2014a;Schlesinger and Jasechko, 2014). As freshwater resources continue to become relatively scarce for agricultural production, along with the uncertainty imposed by climate change, there is increasing interest in E and T partitioning in order to find ways to enhance crop water productivity. Consequently, numerous crop, energy balance, and mass balance models of varying complexity have been developed that address this objective (Evett and Tolk, 2009). Of these, energy balance approaches designed to use remote sensing (RS) data in reflectance and thermal bands have received significant attention because RS can capture the spatial variation of vegetation characteristics more efficiently than approaches limited to micrometeorological or in situ measurements alone, and RS approaches are relatively practical to implement (Gowda et al., 2008;Kustas and Anderson, 2009;French et al., 2015).One thermal-based energy balance RS approach that calculates E and T explicitly is a two-source energy balance model that was initially developed by