Monitoring of soil moisture over the Kuwait desert using remote sensing techniques

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 4373-4385

  Al Jassar, Hala Khalid ^a   Rao, Kota Sivasankara ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOISTURE CONTROL; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL SURVEYS;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER-EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (AMSR-E); FIELD EXPERIMENT; MODEL RESULTS; PIXEL RESOLUTION; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; SOIL MOISTURE MAPS; SOIL SAMPLE; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 77956623515     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160903258233     Document Type: Article

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