Monitoring soil moisture to support risk reduction for the agriculture sector using RADARSAT-2

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 824-834

  McNairn, Heather ^a   Merzouki, Amine ^a   Pacheco, Anna ^a   Fitzmaurice, John ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calibrated IEM; RADARSAT 2; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE SECTORS; AVERAGE ERRORS; CALIBRATED IEM; DATA SETS; FIELD LEVEL; INTEGRAL EQUATION MODELS; MEAN ERRORS; RADARSAT-2; REGIONAL SCALE; RESIDUE COVER; RISK REDUCTIONS; SITE-SPECIFIC; TEST SITE;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; ERRORS; RATING; SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; RADARSAT; SOIL MOISTURE; TILLAGE;

EID: 84863529598     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2192416     Document Type: Article

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