Clarifications on the "comparison between SMOS, VUA, ASCAT, and ECMWF Soil Moisture Products over Four Watersheds in U.S."

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1901-1906

  Wagner, Wolfgang ^a   Brocca, Luca ^b   Naeimi, Vahid ^a   Reichle, Rolf ^c   Draper, Clara ^c   De Jeu, Richard ^d   Ryu, Dongryeol ^e   Su, Chun Hsu ^e   Western, Andrew ^e   Calvet, Jean Christophe ^f   Kerr, Yann H ^g   Leroux, Delphine J ^g   Drusch, Matthias ^h   Jackson, Thomas J ⁱ   Hahn, Sebastian ^a   Dorigo, Wouter ^a   Paulik, Christoph ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^g CESBIO   (France)

^h EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT); noise characterization; soil moisture; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS); validation

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SOIL MOISTURE; WATERSHEDS;

IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; NOISE CHARACTERIZATION; SATELLITE SOIL MOISTURE; SCATTEROMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS); SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; VALIDATION;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AMSR-E; ASCAT; SATELLITE DATA; SMOS; SOIL MOISTURE; SUMMER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891555271     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2282172     Document Type: Article

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