Scatterometer-derived soil moisture calibrated for soil texture with a one-dimensional water-flow model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4041-4049

  De Lange, Remko ^a   Beck, Rob ^a   Van De Giesen, Nick ^b   Friesen, Jan ^b   De Wit, Allard ^c   Wagner, Wolfgang ^d  

^a Netherlands Geomatics and Earth Observation BV   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Hydrology; Microwave; Scatterometer; Soil moisture; Soil texture

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED WIND SCATTEROMETER; CHARACTERISTIC TIME; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES; IN-SITU; MICROWAVE SCANNING; MOISTURE DATA; OBSERVATION SYSTEMS; PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; REFERENCE SOIL; SAMPLING FREQUENCIES; SAMPLING PERIOD; SANDY SOILS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SCATTEROMETER DATA; SCATTEROMETERS; SOIL CHARACTERISTICS; SOIL CONDUCTIVITY; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITIES; SOIL MOISTURE MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SOIL TEXTURE; SOIL TEXTURE CLASS; SOIL TEXTURES; SOIL WATER INDICES;

ALGORITHMS; FLOW OF WATER; GEOLOGIC MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MOISTURE CONTROL; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; TEXTURES;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 77954365515     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2000796     Document Type: Article

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