A new approach for validating satellite estimates of soil moisture using large-scale precipitation: Comparing AMSR-E products

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 142, Issue , 2014, Pages 207-222

  Tuttle, Samuel E ^a   Salvucci, Guido D ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMSR E; Mutual information; Precipitation; Remote sensing; Soil moisture; Validation

Indexed keywords

AMSR-E; LARGE-SCALE PRECIPITATION; MAXIMUM MUTUAL INFORMATION; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; REMOTELY SENSED SOIL MOISTURE; SIGMOIDAL RELATIONSHIP; SOIL MOISTURE MEASUREMENT; VALIDATION;

NASA; PLASTIC FLOW; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; STEREOPHONIC BROADCASTING;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AMSR-E; BIOMASS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891704843     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.12.002     Document Type: Article

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