A downscaling approach for SMOS land observations: Evaluation of high-resolution soil moisture maps over the Iberian peninsula

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

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3845-3857

  Piles, Maria ^a,b   Sánchez, Nilda ^c,d   Vall Llossera, Mercè ^a,b   Camps, Adriano ^a,b   Martínez Fernandez, Jose ^c   Martinez, Justino ^e,f   Gonzalez Gambau, Veronica ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Passeig Maritim de la Barceloneta   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^d USAL   (Spain)

^e INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^f Departamento de Oceanografía Física y Tecnológica Institut de Ciències Del Mar CSIC ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Dissagregation; downscaling; Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); REMEDHUS; soil moisture; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS)

Indexed keywords

DISSAGREGATION; DOWN-SCALING; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; REMEDHUS; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS);

SOIL MOISTURE;

ALGORITHM; DOWNSCALING; MAP; MODIS; SMOS; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84910080150     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2325398     Document Type: Article

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