Soil moisture estimation using an artificial neural network: A feasibility study

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 827-839

  Jiang, Hongli ^a   Cotton, William R ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); VEGETATION;

BOUNDARY-LAYER EVOLUTION; CLOUD-MASKED INFRARED (IR) SKIN TEMPERATURE; SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION; VEGETATION INDEX;

SOILS;

EID: 11144227443     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m04-041     Document Type: Article

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