Combined analysis of soil moisture measurements from roving and fixed cosmic ray neutron probes for multiscale real-time monitoring

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3389-3396

  Franz, Trenton E ^a   Wang, Tiejun ^a   Avery, William ^a   Finkenbiner, Catherine ^a   Brocca, Luca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

agriculture; cosmic ray neutron probe; data merging; Nebraska; soil moisture network

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; COSMIC RAY MEASUREMENT; COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MERGING; MOISTURE CONTROL; NEUTRONS; PROBES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

COSMIC RAY NEUTRON; DATA MERGING; NEBRASKA; REMOTELY SENSED SOIL MOISTURE; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SOIL MOISTURE NETWORKS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COSMIC RAY; ECOHYDROLOGY; ERROR CORRECTION; LAND SURFACE; REAL TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

NEBRASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84930472736     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063963     Document Type: Article

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