Assessment of soil moisture data requirements by the potential SMAP data user community: Review of SMAP mission user community

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 277-283

  Brown, Molly E ^a   Escobar, Vanessa M ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; applications; hydrology; remote sensing; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

APPLIED SCIENCE; DATA REQUIREMENTS; FREEZE/THAW STATE; GLOBAL MEASUREMENTS; MISSION SUCCESS; POTENTIAL USERS; SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE (SMAP); USER COMMUNITIES;

AGRICULTURE; APPLICATION PROGRAMS; APPLICATIONS; DATA PROCESSING; HYDROLOGY; NASA; REMOTE SENSING;

SOIL MOISTURE;

AGRICULTURE; HYDROLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84891825457     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2261473     Document Type: Article

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