Estimating surface soil moisture from TerraSAR-X data over two small catchments in the Sahelian part of Western Niger

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1266-1283

  Baghdadi, Nicolas ^a   Camus, Pauline ^a   Beaugendre, Nicolas ^b   Issa, Oumarou Malam ^c,d   Zribi, Mehrez ^e   Desprats, Jean François ^f   Rajot, Jean Louis ^d   Abdallah, Chadi ^g   Sannier, Christophe ^b  

^a UMR TETIS   (France)

^b SIRS   (France)

^c Centre de Recherches en Environnement et Agronomie   (France)

^d UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

^e CESBIO   (France)

^f BRGM   (France)

^g NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Biological crust; Sahel; Soil moisture estimation; TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CRUST; CHANGE DETECTION; DRY SEASONS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; IN-SITU MOISTURE CONTENT; MULTI-TEMPORAL; NIGER; RAINY SEASONS; REFERENCE IMAGE; ROUGHNESS EFFECTS; SAHEL; SMALL CATCHMENT; SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION; STUDY SITES; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; TERRASAR-X;

CATCHMENTS; ESTIMATION; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE;

MOISTURE DETERMINATION;

EID: 80052550956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3061266     Document Type: Article

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