Downscaling of remotely sensed soil moisture with a modified fractal interpolation method using contraction mapping and ancillary data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 400-413

  Kim, Gwangseob ^a   Barros, Ana P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; INTERPOLATION; MAPPING; MOISTURE; SOILS; VEGETATION;

SCALING FACTORS;

REMOTE SENSING;

DOWNSCALING; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTERPOLATION; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036890199     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00044-5     Document Type: Article

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