Continental-scale evaluation of remotely sensed soil moisture products

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 451-455

  Crow, Wade T ^a,b   Zhan, Xiwu ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Moisture; Rain; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SCATTEROMETERS; THERMAL REMOTE SENSING OBSERVATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERRORS; MOISTURE; RAIN; SOILS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 34547218382     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2007.896533     Document Type: Article

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