Impacts of Spatial Scaling Errors on Soil Moisture Retrieval Accuracy at L-Band

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 67-80

  Crosson, William L ^a   Limaye, Ashutosh S ^a   Laymon, Charles A ^a  

^a NATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; soil moisture; vegetation

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; APRIORI; ERROR SOURCES; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; FUTURE MISSION; GROUND-BASED INSTRUMENTATION; IN-LINE; INTENSIVE MEASUREMENTS; LAND SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; LAND-COVER TYPES; MICROWAVE EMISSIVITY; MICROWAVE ENERGIES; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MICROWAVE SIMULATION; MISSION REQUIREMENTS; NEAR-SURFACE; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; OPEN WATER; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARAMETERIZED; REMOTE SENSORS; SATELLITE SENSORS; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; SINGLE-FREQUENCY; SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SPATIAL AGGREGATION; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIAL SCALING; STANDARD DEVIATION; STUDY AREAS; VEGETATION DENSITY; VEGETATION PROPERTIES; VEGETATION WATER CONTENT; VOLUMETRIC SOIL MOISTURES; WEIGHTED MEAN;

AGGLOMERATION; AGRICULTURE; ERRORS; GROUNDWATER; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE CONTROL; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; NASA; PERMITTIVITY; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION; WATER ANALYSIS;

WATER CONTENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BASELINE SURVEY; DATA ASSIMILATION; EMISSIVITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROPERTY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77649154743     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2041636     Document Type: Article

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