Using ERS spaceborne microwave soil moisture observations to predict groundwater head in space and time

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 138, Issue , 2013, Pages 172-188

  Sutanudjaja, E H ^a   De Jong, S M ^a   Van Geer, F C ^a,c   Bierkens, M F P ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Kalman filter; Rhine Meuse basin; Soil Water Index (SWI); Transfer function noise (TFN) model

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY INFORMATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING; REMOTELY SENSED SOIL MOISTURE; RHINE-MEUSE BASIN; SOIL WATER INDICES; SPACEBORNE REMOTE SENSING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL PREDICTION;

FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTERS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SPACE OPTICS; TIME SERIES;

GROUNDWATER;

AMPLITUDE; CORRELATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; INTERPOLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; WATER LEVEL;

NETHERLANDS; RHINE-MEUSE DELTA;

EID: 84882778966     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.07.022     Document Type: Article

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