Remote sensing of soil moisture in vineyards using airborne and ground-based thermal inertia data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3729-3748

  Soliman, Aiman ^a   Heck, Richard J ^b   Brenning, Alexander ^c   Brown, Ralph ^d   Miller, Stephen ^b  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Remote sensing; Soil moisture content; Surface temperature; Thermal inertia; Viticulture

Indexed keywords

LINEAR MIXED-EFFECTS MODEL; MECHANICAL RESISTANCE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF SOIL PROPERTIES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; THERMAL INERTIA; THERMAL REMOTE SENSING; VITICULTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84884789903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5083729     Document Type: Article

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