Error estimates for near-real-time satellite soil moisture as derived from the land parameter retrieval model

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 779-783

  Parinussa, Robert M ^a   Meesters, Antoon G C A ^a   Liu, Yi Y ^b,c   Dorigo, Wouter ^d   Wagner, Wolfgang ^d   De Jeu, Richard A M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Analytical solution; error analysis; passive microwave; radiative transfer; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; ERROR ESTIMATES; ERROR PROPAGATION; ESTIMATED ERROR; INPUT PARAMETER; LOW FREQUENCY; MICROWAVE SCANNING; MONTE CARLO APPROACH; NEAR-REAL TIME; NEAR-REAL-TIME DATA; PARAMETER RETRIEVAL; PARTIAL DERIVATIVES; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATIONS; SATELLITE SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE;

DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOIL MOISTURE;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

EID: 79957943006     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2114872     Document Type: Article

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