A framework for combining multiple soil moisture retrievals based on maximizing temporal correlation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 6662-6670

  Kim, Seokhyeon ^a   Parinussa, Robert M ^a   Liu, Yi Y ^a   Johnson, Fiona M ^a   Sharma, Ashish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

AMSR2; linear combination; soil moisture; weighting

Indexed keywords

SOIL SURVEYS; SPACE RESEARCH;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; AMSR2; JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; SATELLITE SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; VOLUMETRIC WATER CONTENT; WEIGHTING;

SOIL MOISTURE;

AMSR-E; DATA SET; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MODEL VALIDATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT;

JAPAN;

EID: 84941738658     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064981     Document Type: Article

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