Soil moisture estimation over an arid environment in Mongolia from passive microwave remote sensing based on a simplified parameterization method

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 415-427

  Tian, Hui ^a,b   Wang, Cheng Hai ^a   Wen, Jun ^b   Wang, Xin ^b   Lu, Deng Rong ^c   Lü, Shao Ning ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c Gansu Meteorological Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

Mongolia arid regions; Passive microwave remote sensing; Simplified parameter method; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; AMSR-E; AQUA (SATELLITE); ARID ENVIRONMENT; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EOS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PARAMETERIZATION; REAL TIME; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPSOIL;

MONGOLIA;

EID: 84859151512     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6038/j.issn.0001-5733.2012.02.006     Document Type: Article

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