Soil moisture estimation in a semiarid watershed using RADARSAT-1 satellite imagery and genetic programming

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Makkeasorn, Ammarin ^a   Chang, Ni Bin ^b   Beaman, Mark ^c   Wyatt, Chris ^d   Slater, Charles ^d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; GEOMETRY; HYDROLOGY; MOISTURE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WATERSHEDS;

ESTIMATION METHODS; MOISTURE PATTERNS; SATELLITE IMAGERIES; SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

CALIBRATION; GEOMETRY; HYDROLOGY; MOISTURE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SOIL SURVEYS; WATERSHEDS;

CALIBRATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADARSAT; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATERSHED;

CHOKE CANYON RESERVOIR; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750299461     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004033     Document Type: Article

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