Measuring soil moisture content non-invasively at intermediate spatial scale using cosmic-ray neutrons

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 21, 2008, Pages

  Zreda, Marek ^a   Desilets, Darin ^a   Ferre T P A ^a   Scott, Russell L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CARL HAYDEN BEE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEN; MOISTURE; MOISTURE CONTROL; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; NEUTRONS; PERMITTIVITY; SENSORS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SPACE PROBES; WATER CONTENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE FORECASTS; COSMIC-RAY NEUTRONS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HYDROGEN ATOMS; HYDROGEN CONTENTS; LONG-TERM MONITORING; LOW ENERGIES; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; SATELLITE SENSORS; SOIL CHEMISTRIES; SOIL MOISTURE CONTENTS; SPATIAL SCALE; UNDISTURBED SOILS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

MEASUREMENT METHOD; MOISTURE CONTENT; PROBE; SATELLITE SENSOR; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 58849145568     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035655     Document Type: Article

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