Estimating spatial sampling errors in coarse-scale soil moisture estimates derived from point-scale observations

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1423-1429

  Miralles, Diego G ^a,b   Crow, Wade T ^a   Cosh, Michael H ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Error analysis; Land surface modeling; Remote sensing; Satellite observations; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 77956303777     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JHM1285.1     Document Type: Article

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