Soil moisture estimation by assimilating L-band microwave brightness temperature with geostatistics and observation localization

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Han, Xujun ^a   Li, Xin ^a,b   Rigon, Riccardo ^c   Jin, Rui ^a,b   Endrizzi, Stefano ^d  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; GROUND WATER; SOIL;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; LAND USE; LEAF AREA; LOCAL ENSEMBLE TRANSFORM KALMAN FILTER ALGORITHM; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OBSERVATION LOCALIZATION; PRECIPITATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL TEXTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION; CHEMISTRY; SOIL;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GROUNDWATER; MICROWAVES; SOIL;

EID: 84922423945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116435     Document Type: Article

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