Surface soil water content estimation from thermal remote sensing based on the temporal variation of land surface temperature

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3170-3187

  Zhang, Dianjun ^a,b   Tang, Ronglin ^a   Zhao, Wei ^c   Tang, Bohui ^a   Wu, Hua ^a   Shao, Kun ^d   Li, Zhao Liang ^e  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

^d HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Soil water content; Temperature rising rate; Thermal infrared; Triangle method; TRRVDI

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

SOIL WATER CONTENT; TEMPERATURE RISING RATE; THERMAL INFRARED; TRIANGLE METHOD; TRRVDI;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84904999402     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6043170     Document Type: Article

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