Modeling regional crop yield and irrigation demand using SMAP type of soil moisture data

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 904-916

  El Sharif, Husayn ^a   Wang, Jingfeng ^a   Georgakakos, Aris P ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Numerical analysis modeling; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; ALGORITHM; CROP YIELD; DATA ASSIMILATION; IRRIGATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941208656     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-14-0034.1     Document Type: Article

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