Canadian experiment for soil moisture in 2010 (CanEx-SM10): Overview and preliminary results

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 347-363

  Magagi, Ramata ^a   Berg, Aaron A ^b   Goita, Kalifa ^a   Belair, Stephane ^c   Jackson, Thomas J ^d   Toth, Brenda ^c   Walker, Anne ^c   McNairn, Heather ^e   O'Neill, Peggy E ^f   Moghaddam, Mahta ^g   Gherboudj, Imen ^a   Colliander, Andreas ^h   Cosh, Michael H ^d   Burgin, Mariko ^g   Fisher, Joshua B ^h   Kim, Seung Bum ^h   Mladenova, Iliana ^d   Djamai, Najib ^a   Rousseau, Louis Philippe B ^a   Belanger, Jon ^b   Shang, Jiali ^e   Merzouki, Amine ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural and boreal forested areas; brightness temperature; soil moisture; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS); validation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL AREAS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; BULK DENSITY; CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS; DATA CENTERS; DATA SETS; FORESTED AREA; GROUND BASED; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; GROUND DATA; IN-SITU NETWORKS; L-BAND RADIOMETER; LEAF AREA INDEX; MEASUREMENT STRATEGIES; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; POLARIZATION DEPENDENCY; RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE; SASKATCHEWAN , CANADA; SATELLITE ACQUISITION; SATELLITE PLATFORMS; SNOW AND ICE; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS); SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY MISSIONS; SOIL MOISTURE MEASUREMENT; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; VALIDATION; VEGETATION CONDITION; VEGETATION HEIGHT;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BOREAL FOREST; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; LITERATURE REVIEW; PIXEL; SALINITY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SMOS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CANADA; SASKATCHEWAN;

EID: 84871974677     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2198920     Document Type: Article

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