The Impact of National Land Cover and Soils Data on SMOS Soil Moisture Retrieval over Canadian Agricultural Landscapes

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

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 5281-5293

  Pacheco, Anna ^a   McNairn, Heather ^a   Mahmoodi, Ali ^b   Champagne, Catherine ^a   Kerr, Yann H ^b  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Agriculture; brightness temperature; land surface; monitoring; passive microwave remote sensing; soil moisture; surface texture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; AGRICULTURAL SECTOR; MICROWAVE EMISSIONS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE SENSORS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS); SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE;

SOIL MOISTURE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; SMOS; SOIL MOISTURE;

CANADA;

EID: 84930427623     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2417832     Document Type: Article

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