A proposed extension to the soil moisture and ocean salinity level 2 algorithm for mixed forest and moderate vegetation pixels

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3343-3354

  Panciera, Rocco ^a   Walker, Jeffrey P ^b   Kalma, Jetse ^c   Kim, Edward ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Passive microwave; SMOS; SMOS Level 2; Soil moisture; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SOIL; CRITICAL AMOUNT; DATA SETS; EARTH'S SURFACE; EUCALYPT FOREST; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FORESTED AREA; GLOBAL MAP; LAND SURFACE; LAND-COVER TYPES; LEVEL 2; MICROWAVE EMISSIONS; MIXED FORESTS; NAFE'05; NON-LINEARITY; OPTICAL DEPTH; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; SMOS; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITIES; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY MISSIONS; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUB PIXELS; VEGETATION OPTICAL DEPTH; VEGETATION TYPE;

ALGORITHMS; ERRORS; FORESTRY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

PIXELS;

ALGORITHM; EARTH STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; LAND COVER; MIXED FOREST; OPTICAL DEPTH; PIXEL; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; HETEROGENEITY; MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE CONTENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANTS; SALINITY; SOIL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 81355161344     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.07.017     Document Type: Article

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