Relationship between soil moisture and vegetation in the Kairouan plain region of Tunisia using low spatial resolution satellite data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Zribi, M ^a   Paris Anguela, T ^b   Duchemin, B ^a   Lili, Z ^c   Wagner, W ^d   Hasenauer, S ^d   Chehbouni, A ^a  

^a CNES   (France)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL AGRONOMIQUE DE TUNISIE   (Tunisia)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; ERS SCATTEROMETER; MOISTURE MEASUREMENT; MOISTURE PROFILES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; NORTH AFRICA; RAINFALL EVENT; RAINY SEASONS; SATELLITE DATA; SEMI-ARID REGION; SEMIEMPIRICAL MODELS; SOIL MOISTURE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL WETNESS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TUNISIA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ARID REGIONS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; MOISTURE METERS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS;

VEGETATION;

DATABASE; RADIOMETER; SATELLITE DATA; SCATTEROMETER; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

KAIROUAN; TUNISIA;

EID: 77954397648     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008196     Document Type: Article

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