Validation of the ASCAT soil water index using in situ data from the International Soil moisture network

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-8

  Paulik, Christoph ^a   Dorigo, Wouter ^a   Wagner, Wolgang ^a   Kidd, Richard ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Remote sensing; Soil moisture; Soil water index; Validation

Indexed keywords

ASCAT; CORRELATION; METOP; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; TIME SERIES; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 84897479262     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2014.01.007     Document Type: Article

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