WindSat global soil moisture retrieval and validation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2224-2241

  Li, Li ^a   Gaiser, Peter W ^a   Gao, Bo Cai ^a   Bevilacqua, Richard M ^a   Jackson, Thomas J ^b   Njoku, Eni G ^c   Rüdiger, Christoph ^d,e   Calvet, Jean Christophe ^f   Bindlish, Rajat ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Hydrology; Land surface temperature; Passive microwave remote sensing; Soil moisture; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA SETS; DUAL-POLARIZATIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL RETRIEVALS; IN-SITU; IN-SITU NETWORKS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MESOSCALE; MONGOLIA; MULTI-TEMPORAL; OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; PHYSICALLY BASED; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; STANDARD ERRORS; VEGETATION FRACTIONS; VEGETATION WATER CONTENT; WINDSAT;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; REMOTE SENSING; SECURITY OF DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VEGETATION; WATER;

WATER CONTENT;

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; LAND SURFACE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION COVER;

FRANCE; MONGOLIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77951297192     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2037749     Document Type: Article

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