Monitoring agricultural soil moisture extremes in Canada using passive microwave remote sensing

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2434-2444

  Champagne, C ^a,b   McNairn, H ^a   Berg, A ^b  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Drought; Passive microwave; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOILS; ANCILLARY DATA; AVERAGE ERRORS; DATA DRIVEN; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; IN-SITU; METEOROLOGICAL DROUGHT; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; NESTED HIERARCHY; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; POINT-BASED; SATELLITE SENSORS; SATELLITE SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL AGGREGATION; SPATIAL EXTENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE;

AGGLOMERATION; DROUGHT; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE CONTROL; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; AMSR-E; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSOR; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURFACE; SOIL SURVEY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL RECORD; WEATHER STATION;

CANADA;

EID: 79960741881     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.04.030     Document Type: Article

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