Monitoring agricultural risk in Canada using L-band passive microwave soil moisture from SMOS

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 5-18

  Champagne, Catherine ^a   Davidson, Andrew ^a   Cherneski, Patrick ^a   L'Heureux, Jessika ^a   Hadwen, Trevor ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Annual variations; North America; Remote sensing; Risk assessment; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; DROUGHT; FLOODING; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL MOISTURE;

CANADA;

EID: 84922849825     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-14-0039.1     Document Type: Article

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