Improving long-term, retrospective precipitation datasets using satellite-based surface soil moisture retrievals and the Soil Moisture Analysis Rainfall Tool

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Fan ^a   Crow, Wade T ^a   Holmes, Thomas R H ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Global precipitation dataset; Kalman filter; Remotely sensed surface soil moisture

Indexed keywords

KALMAN FILTERS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SATELLITES;

GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; REMOTELY SENSED SURFACE SOIL MOISTURES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SATELLITE SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL MOISTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84901699951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.6.063604     Document Type: Article

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