Merging two passive microwave remote sensing (SMOS and AMSR-E) datasets to produce a long term record of Soil Moisture

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2269-2272

  Al Yaari, A ^a,b,c   Wigneron, J P ^a   Ducharne, A ^c   Kerr, Y ^d   De Rosnay, P ^b   De Jeu, R ^f   Govind, A ^a   Bitar, A Al ^d   Albergel, C ^e   Munoz Sabater, J ^e   Richaume, P ^d   Mialon, A ^d  

^a BORDEAUX SCIENCES AGRO   (France)

^b THAMAR UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^f VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AMSR E; regression analyses; SMOS; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911371551     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946922     Document Type: Conference Paper

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