ASCAT soil wetness index validation through in situ and modeled soil moisture data in central Italy

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2745-2755

  Brocca, L ^a   Melone, F ^a   Moramarco, T ^a   Wagner, W ^b   Hasenauer, S ^b  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

ASCAT; In situ measurements; Remote sensing; Soil moisture; Soil water balance model

Indexed keywords

ASCAT; CENTRAL ITALY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ERS SCATTEROMETER; FLOOD FORECASTING; GLOBAL SCALE; GROUND DATA; IN-SITU; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; IRRIGATION SCHEDULING; LINEAR TRANSFORMATION; PRACTICAL ISSUES; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECASTING; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RELIABLE MEASUREMENT; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SATURATION DEGREE; SCATTEROMETERS; SOIL WATER BALANCE MODEL; SOIL WETNESS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE SATURATION; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME STEP;

BEARING CAPACITY; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; FLOOD CONTROL; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MOISTURE CONTROL; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SCHEDULING; SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SOIL SURVEYS;

FLOOD FORECASTING; HYDROLOGY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER BASIN; SATELLITE DATA; SCATTEROMETER; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WATER BUDGET; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ITALY;

EID: 77954350778     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.06.009     Document Type: Article

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