Performance inter-comparison of soil moisture retrieval models for the MetOp-A ASCAT instrument

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2455-2458

  Gruber, Alexander ^a   Paloscia, Simonetta ^b   Santi, Emanuele ^b   Notarnicola, Claudia ^c   Pasolli, Luca ^c   Smolander, Tuomo ^d   Pulliainen, Jouni ^d   Mittelbach, Heidi ^e   Dorigo, Wouter ^a   Wagner, Wolfgang ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^d FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

calibration; retrieval model; Soil moisture; triple collocation; validation

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; REMOTE SENSING;

BACKSCATTER DATA; INTERCOMPARISONS; LAND SURFACE MODELING; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; RETRIEVAL MODELS; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; TRIPLE COLLOCATION; VALIDATION;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84911369482     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946969     Document Type: Conference Paper

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