An intercomparison of remotely sensed soil moisture products at various spatial scales over the Iberian Peninsula

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 4865-4876

  Parinussa, R M ^a   Yilmaz, M T ^b   Anderson, M C ^b   Hain, C R ^c   de Jeu, R A M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Downscaling; Intercomparison; Remote sensing; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SOIL MOISTURE;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOWN-SCALING; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; INTERCOMPARISONS; PRODUCT COMBINATIONS; REMOTELY SENSED SOIL MOISTURE; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SMOOTHING FILTER BASED INTENSITY MODULATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOWNSCALING; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WATER CONTENT;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84906047225     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9975     Document Type: Article

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