Soil moisture estimation using cosmic-ray soil moisture sensing at heterogeneous farmland

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1659-1663

  Han, Xujun ^a   Jin, Rui ^a   Li, Xin ^a   Wang, Shuguo ^a  

^a Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute Chinese Academy of Sciences ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Inverse problems; neutrons; soil moisture; wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; FARMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NEUTRONS; PROBES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; COSMIC RAY NEUTRON; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; HETEROGENEOUS SOILS; SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION; SOIL MOISTURE MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SOIL MOISTURE SENSING;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84901370452     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2314535     Document Type: Article

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