Improving satellite soil moisture estimates by combining passive and active microwave observations (1992-2008)

IAHS-AISH Publication

Volumn 352, Issue , 2012, Pages 16-20

  Liu, Yi ^a,b,c   Parinussa, Robert ^b   Dorigo, Wouter ^c   De Jeu, Richard ^b   Wagner, Wolfgang ^c   McCabe, Matthew ^a   Evans, Jason ^a   Van Dijk, Albert ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Long term; Microwave; Satellite observations; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MICROWAVE; BLENDED PRODUCTS; LONG TERM; MICROWAVE SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS;

HYDROLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

MICROWAVES;

ASCAT; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DATA SET; ERS-1; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SSM-I; TRMM;

EID: 84883432467     PISSN: 01447815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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