A nested ecohydrological wireless sensor network for capturing the surface heterogeneity in the midstream areas of the Heihe River Basin, China

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2015-2019

  Jin, Rui ^a   Li, Xin ^a   Yan, Baoping ^b   Li, Xiuhong ^c   Luo, Wanmin ^b   Ma, Mingguo ^a   Guo, Jianwen ^a   Kang, Jian ^a   Zhu, Zhongli ^c   Zhao, Shaojie ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Eco hydrological process; remote sensing validation; spatial variation; wireless sensor network (WSN)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; WATERSHEDS;

ECOLOGICAL PROCESS; HEIHE RIVER BASIN; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MULTI-SCALE SPATIAL VARIATION; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SURFACE HETEROGENEITIES; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84901825138     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2319085     Document Type: Article

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