Monitoring spatiotemporal surface soil moisture variations during dry seasons in central america with multisensor cascade data fusion

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

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4340-4355

  Chen, Chi Farn ^a   Valdez, Miguel Conrado ^a   Chang, Ni Bin ^b   Chang, Li Yu ^b   Yuan, Pei Yao ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Geospatial Informatics and Technology Laboratory   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Advanced microwave scanning radiometer on 26 earth observing system (AMSR E); leaf area index (LAI); moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS); normalized multiband drought index (NMDI); surface soil moisture (SSM)

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DATA FUSION; DROUGHT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MOISTURE; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SPECTROMETERS;

DROUGHT INDICES; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AGRICULTURAL APPLICATION; AMSR-E; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 84920983620     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2347313     Document Type: Article

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