Critical analysis of the thermal inertia approach to map soil water content under sparse vegetation and changeable sky conditions

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8531, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Maltese, Antonino ^a   Capodici, Fulvio ^a   Corbari, Chiara ^b   Ciraolo, Giuseppe ^a   Loggia, Goffredo La ^a   Sobrino, José Antonio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cloudiness; Soil water content; Sparse vegetation; Thermal inertia

Indexed keywords

CLOUDINESS; RADIOMETRIC TEMPERATURE; RADIOMETRIC THERMOMETERS; REMOTELY SENSED ESTIMATIONS; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; THERMAL INERTIA;

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; ECOSYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROLOGY; PROBES; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84880036299     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.975676     Document Type: Conference Paper

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