A ground network for SAR-derived soil moisture product calibration, validation and exploitation in Southern Italy

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3382-3385

  Balenzano, Anna ^a   Satalino, Giuseppe ^a   Iacobellis, Vito ^b   Gioia, Andrea ^b   Manfreda, Salvatore ^c   Rinaldi, Michele ^d   De Vita, Pasquale ^d   Miglietta, Franco ^e   Toscano, Piero ^e   Annicchiarico, Giovanni ^c   Mattia, Francesco ^a  

^a Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche ^*  (France)

^b POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^d Università Degli Studi della Basilicata ^*  (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ground network; land applications; SAR; soil moisture; validation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE CONTROL; REMOTE SENSING;

ANTHROPOGENIC PRESSURES; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; GROUND NETWORKS; GROUND OBSERVATIONS; LAND APPLICATIONS; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; PRODUCT VALIDATION; VALIDATION;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84911361828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947206     Document Type: Conference Paper

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