Spatial variability of remotely sensed soil moisture in a temperate-humid grassland catchment

Ecohydrology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 668-676

  Liu, Wen ^a   Xu, Xianli ^a,b   Kiely, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscatter coefficient; ENVISAT ASAR; Remote sensing; Soil moisture; Spatial variability

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIANCE; EMPIRICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; ENVISAT; EXPONENTIAL MODELS; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; GRASSLAND CATCHMENT; MOISTURE FIELD; REGIONAL SCALE; REMOTELY SENSED SOIL MOISTURE; SEMIVARIOGRAMS; SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION; SOIL MOISTURE MONITORING; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL DEPENDENCE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; WET AND DRY; WIDE SWATH;

BACKSCATTERING; CATCHMENTS; ESTIMATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SOIL MOISTURE;

BACKSCATTER; CATCHMENT; ECOHYDROLOGY; ENVISAT-1; GEOSTATISTICS; GRASSLAND; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84867340213     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.254     Document Type: Article

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