Ground-based investigation of soil moisture variability within remote sensing footprints during the Southern Great Plains 1997 (SGP97) Hydrology Experiment

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1839-1851

  Famiglietti, J S ^a   Devereaux, J A ^a   Laymon, C A ^b   Tsegaye, T ^c   Houser, P R ^d   Jackson, T J ^e   Graham, S T ^a   Rodell, M ^a   Van Oevelen, P J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Global Hydrology and Climate Center   (United States)

^c ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^f WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; UNITED STATES;

CULTIVATION; EXTRAPOLATION; HYDROLOGY; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; VEGETATION;

VOLUMETRIC SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT;

SOILS;

GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033015565     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900047     Document Type: Article

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