An evaluation of AMSR-E derived soil moisture over Australia

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 703-710

  Draper, Clara S ^a,b   Walker, Jeffrey P ^a   Steinle, Peter J ^b   de Jeu, Richard A M ^c   Holmes, Thomas R H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Australia; Passive microwave; Remote sensing; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE CONTROL; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; NASA; PERMITTIVITY; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETERS; AMSTERDAM; ANNUAL AVERAGES; AUSTRALIA; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; GROUND-BASED; IN-SITU; MOISTURE FIELDS; MONITORING NETWORKS; NEAR SURFACES; PASSIVE MICROWAVE; PRECIPITATION DATUM; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SHORT TERMS; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL RAINFALLS; TIME-SERIES;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ALGORITHM; ANNUAL VARIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; GOULBURN RIVER; MURRUMBIDGEE RIVER; NEW SOUTH WALES; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 60749132147     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.11.011     Document Type: Article

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