Observation on soil moisture of irrigation cropland by cosmic-ray probe

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 472-476

  Zhu, Zhongli ^a,b   Tan, Lei ^a,b   Gao, Shengguo ^a,b   Jiao, Qishun ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Beijing Key Laboratory of Environmental Remote Sensing and City Digitalization   (China)

Author keywords

Cosmic ray probe (CRP); Heihe Watershed Allied Telemetry Experimental Research (HiWATER); soil moisture; wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; IRRIGATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MOISTURE CONTROL; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PROBES; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE WATERS; TELEMETERING EQUIPMENT; WATERSHEDS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; FIELD-SCALE SOIL MOISTURE; IRRIGATED CROPLAND; IRRIGATION PERIOD; OBSERVATION METHOD; PIXEL RESOLUTION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; STRONG CORRELATION;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84907429986     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2346784     Document Type: Article

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