Index of soil moisture using raw Landsat image digital count data in Texas High Plains

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2352-2372

  Shafian, Sanaz ^a   Maas, Stephan J ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Perpendicular index; Raw image digital count; Soil moisture; Thermal infrared

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARID REGIONS; CROPS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; MOISTURE; MOISTURE CONTROL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS;

ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGERY; PERPENDICULAR INDEX; RAW IMAGES; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; SOIL MOISTURE STATUS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; THERMAL INFRARED;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 84926391649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70302352     Document Type: Article

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