Assimilation of SMOS soil moisture for quantifying drought impacts on crop yield in agricultural regions

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3867-3879

  Chakrabarti, Subit ^a   Bongiovanni, Tara ^a   Judge, Jasmeet ^a   Zotarelli, Lincoln ^b   Bayer, Cimelio ^c  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Agricultural drought; crop growth models; data assimilation; data fusion; downscaling; microwave remote sensing; soil moisture (SM)

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT; CROP GROWTH MODEL; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOWN-SCALING; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING;

DATA FUSION;

CROP YIELD; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOWNSCALING; DROUGHT; GROWTH RATE; KALMAN FILTER; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SMOS; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

LA PLATA BASIN;

EID: 84910030650     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2315999     Document Type: Article

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