Assessment of soil water deficit for the middle reaches of Yarlung-Zangbo River from optical and passive microwave images

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 142, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-8

  Zhong, Lei ^a,b,c   Ma, Yaoming ^b   Fu, Yunfei ^a   Pan, Xiao ^a   Hu, Wei ^d   Su, Zhongbo ^c   Salama, Mhd Suhyb ^c   Feng, Lu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d Institute of Geological Surveying and Mapping of Anhui Province   (China)

Author keywords

Soil moisture; Surface Energy Balance System; The Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ENERGY BALANCE; FROZEN SOILS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; METEOROLOGY; RADIOMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE;

DISASTER MONITORING; LAND SURFACE PARAMETERS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE SYSTEMS; TIBET AUTONOMOUS REGION; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

RIVERS;

AVHRR; CROP YIELD; DATA SET; DIURNAL VARIATION; ENERGY BALANCE; FROZEN GROUND; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MODIS; NDVI; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE ENERGY; TRIBUTARY;

BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER; CHINA; LHASA RIVER; XIZANG;

EID: 84889569642     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.11.008     Document Type: Article

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