Towards the estimation root-zone soil moisture via the simultaneous assimilation of thermal and microwave soil moisture retrievals

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 201-214

  Li, Fuqin ^a,b   Crow, Wade T ^a   Kustas, William P ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b National Earth Observation Group   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Microwave remote sensing; Soil moisture; Thermal remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL APPLICATIONS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENHANCEMENTS; GROUND BASED; HYDROLOGIC APPLICATIONS; INSTANTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SOIL COLUMN; SOIL MOISTURE AVAILABILITY; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SOIL WATER BALANCE MODEL; SPARSE SAMPLING; STUDY SITES; SURFACE RADIOMETRIC TEMPERATURES; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL; THERMAL INFRARED; THERMAL INFRARED TEMPERATURE; WATER CYCLE;

DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE CONTROL; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER ANALYSIS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; INFRARED IMAGERY; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MOISTURE CONTENT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOMETRIC SURVEY; REMOTE SENSING; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL INFRARED MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 74149088039     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2009.11.007     Document Type: Article

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