The impact of vertical measurement depth on the information content of soil moisture times series data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 4997-5004

  Qiu, Jianxiu ^a,b   Crow, Wade T ^b   Nearing, Grey S ^c   Mo, Xingguo ^a   Liu, Suxia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

drought monitoring; microwave remote sensing; mutual information; surface soil moisture

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT;

CLIMATE ANALYSIS; DROUGHT MONITORING; INFORMATION CONTENTS; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURES; VEGETATION CONDITION;

SOIL MOISTURE;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ACQUISITION; DROUGHT; SOIL MOISTURE; TIME SERIES; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; WATER DEPTH;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84904709857     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060017     Document Type: Article

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