Recent advances on soil moisture data assimilation

Physical Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-37

  Ni Meister, Wenge ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Kalman filter; Remote sensing; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA QUALITY; KALMAN FILTER; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 50549084200     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.29.1.19     Document Type: Review

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