Evaluation of AMSR-E soil moisture results using the in-situ data over the Little River Experimental Watershed, Georgia

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3142-3152

  Sahoo, Alok K ^a,b   Houser, Paul R ^a,b   Ferguson, Craig ^c   Wood, Eric F ^c   Dirmeyer, Paul A ^d   Kafatos, Menas ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IGES   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

AMSR E; In situ observations; Little River Experimental Watershed; LSMEM; Radiative transfer model; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION; WATERSHEDS;

IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; LAND SURFACE MICROWAVE EMISSION MODEL (LSMEM); LITTLE RIVER EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHED;

SOIL MOISTURE;

DATA SET; MODELING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL EMISSION; SOIL MOISTURE; WATERSHED;

GEORGIA; LITTLE RIVER EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHED; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44149120306     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.03.007     Document Type: Article

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