Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 123, Issue , 2012, Pages 280-297

  Liu, Y Y ^a,c,d   Dorigo, W A ^b   Parinussa, R M ^c   De Jeu, R A M ^c   Wagner, W ^b   McCabe, M F ^a   Evans, J P ^a   Van Dijk, A I J M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active and passive microwave; Blending; Long term trend; Satellite; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; ACTIVE MICROWAVE; ACTIVE MICROWAVE INSTRUMENTS; ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; AMSTERDAM; CARBON CYCLES; DATA SETS; DERIVED PRODUCTS; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LONG TERM CHANGE; LONG-TERM TREND; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; MICROWAVE TECHNIQUE; OBSERVATION PERIOD; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; REFERENCE SOIL; RELATIVE DYNAMICS; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SCANNING MULTICHANNEL MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; SCATTEROMETERS; SEASONALITY; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SPACE ADMINISTRATION; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS; THREE-STEP APPROACH; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY; VEGETATION DENSITY;

BLENDING; CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

MICROWAVES;

AMSR-E; ANNUAL VARIATION; DATA SET; RAINFALL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONALITY; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

AMSTERDAM [MONTANA]; MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859937215     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.03.014     Document Type: Article

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