Analysis of C-band scatterometer moisture estimations derived over a semiarid region

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 7 PART1, 2012, Pages 2630-2638

  Amri, Rim ^a,b   Zribi, Mehrez ^a   Lili Chabaane, Zohra ^b   Wagner, Wolfgang ^c   Hasenauer, Stefan ^c  

^a CNES   (France)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL AGRONOMIQUE DE TUNISIE   (Tunisia)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) METOP; drought; radar; root zone moisture; surface moisture

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY INDEXES; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING; NORTH AFRICA; ROOT ZONE; SCATTEROMETERS; SEMI-ARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE DYNAMICS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; STRONG CORRELATION; SURFACE MOISTURES; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY;

ARID REGIONS; DROUGHT; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ASCAT; DROUGHT STRESS; EROSION; FLOODING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RHIZOSPHERE; SATELLITE DATA; SCATTEROMETER; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURFACE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 84862996892     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2186458     Document Type: Article

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