Use of in situ soil moisture network for estimating regional-scale soil moisture during high soil moisture conditions

Canadian Water Resources Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 343-351

  Rowlandson, Tracy ^a   Impera, Sarah ^a   Belanger, Jonathon ^a   Berg, Aaron A ^a   Toth, Brenda ^b   Magagi, Ramata ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEAN SQUARE ERROR; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; CANADIAN EXPERIMENT FOR SOIL MOISTURE IN 2010 (CANEX SM10); CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; REMOTELY SENSED SOIL MOISTURE; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 84937597625     PISSN: 07011784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07011784.2015.1061948     Document Type: Article

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