A simple method to disaggregate passive microwave-based soil moisture

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 786-796

  Merlin, Olivier ^b   Chehbouni, Abdelghani ^c   Walker, Jeffrey P ^b   Panciera, Rocco ^b   Kerr, Yann H ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CESBIO   (France)

Author keywords

Downscaling; Evaporative fraction (EF); Evapotranspiration; Passive microwave; Surface soil moisture

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PIXELS; SATELLITES;

DOWNSCALING; EVAPORATIVE FRACTION (EF); PASSIVE MICROWAVE; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 40149096855     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.914807     Document Type: Article

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