A sequential model for disaggregating near-surface soil moisture observations using multi-resolution thermal sensors

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2275-2284

  Merlin, Olivier ^a   Al Bitar, Ahmad ^a   Walker, Jeffrey P ^b   Kerr, Yann ^a  

^a CESBIO   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

ASTER; Disaggregation; Fractal; MODIS; Multi sensor; NAFE; Scaling; SMOS; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ASTER; DISAGGREGATION; MODIS; MULTI-SENSOR; NAFE; SCALING; SMOS;

FRACTALS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; MOISTURE CONTROL; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; SENSORS; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECTROMETERS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ASTER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD METHOD; MODIS; RADIOMETER; SENSOR; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 67849092244     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.06.012     Document Type: Article

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