Near-surface soil-water monitoring for water resources management on a wide-area basis in the great plains

Great Plains Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-54

  Hubbard, K G ^a   You, J ^a   Sridhar, V ^b   Hunt, E ^c   Korner, S ^d   Roebke, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Boise State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Great Plains; QA; Sensor probe; Soil water; Soil water availability; Soil water network; Theta; Vitel

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RAINGAUGE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOIL WATER; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER DEMAND; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE;

GREAT PLAINS; NEBRASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65349104001     PISSN: 10525165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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