Soil moisture mapping in a semiarid region, based on ASAR/Wide Swath satellite data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 823-835

  Zribi, M ^a   Kotti, F ^b   Amri, R ^a   Wagner, W ^c   Shabou, M ^a   Lili Chabaane, Z ^b   Baghdadi, N ^d  

^a CNES   (France)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL AGRONOMIQUE DE TUNISIE   (Tunisia)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d UMR TETIS   (France)

Author keywords

Envisat ASAR; radar; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARID REGIONS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; RADAR;

ENVISAT ASAR; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; HORIZONTAL POLARIZATION; OPERATIONAL ALGORITHMS; RELATIVE SOIL MOISTURES; SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; SURFACE MOISTURES;

SOIL MOISTURE;

ALGORITHM; ENVISAT-1; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOISTURE CONTENT; NDVI; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPOT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION COVER;

TUNISIA;

EID: 84893163344     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2012WR013405     Document Type: Article

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