Microwave remote sensing of short-term droughts during crop growing seasons

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4394-4401

  Yuan, Xing ^a   Ma, Zhuguo ^a   Pan, Ming ^b   Shi, Chunxiang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

drought; ENSO; reanalysis; remote sensing; soil moisture; validation

Indexed keywords

CROPS; CULTIVATION; DROUGHT; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SPACE OPTICS;

ENSO; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; REANALYSIS; SATELLITE SOIL MOISTURE; VALIDATION; VEGETATION PENETRATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CROP PRODUCTION; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GROWING SEASON; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER BASIN; SOIL MOISTURE;

CHINA;

EID: 84934436187     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064125     Document Type: Article

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