Impact of Accuracy, Spatial Availability, and Revisit Time of Satellite-Derived Surface Soil Moisture in a Multiscale Ensemble Data Assimilation System

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

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 49-56

  Pan, Ming ^a   Wood, Eric F ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; multiscale; remote sensing; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION; HORIZONTAL GRID; HYDROLOGIC MODELING; IN-SITU; MODEL SIMULATION; MULTISCALE; MULTISCALES; OBSERVATION ERRORS; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY; SATELLITE PRODUCTS; SATELLITE SOIL MOISTURE; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; TWIN EXPERIMENTS;

DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PIXEL; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 77649163321     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2040585     Document Type: Article

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